NeoRealism Vs NeoLiberalism

Question 0

What has been integrated into both

Answer 0

Rational-choice approaches and game theory to explain policy choices and behaviour of states in conflict and cooperative situations

Question 1

NeoLiberalism in policy world

Answer 1

Identified with promotion of capitalism and western democratic values and institutions

Question 2

What do neorealists study

Answer 2

Security issues

Issues of power and survival

Question 3

What do neoliberals study

Answer 3

Political economy and focus on cooperation and institutions

Question 4

Structural realism: Kenneth Waltz

Answer 4

Structure of system shapes behaviour of states
Minimise importance of national attributes as determinants of a states’ foreign policy behaviour
All states are functionally similar units, experiencing same constraints presented by anarchy

Question 5

What has contemporary neoliberalism been shaped by

Answer 5

Assumptions of commercial, republican, sociological and institutional liberalism
–states then support free trade and democracy

Question 6

Neo-liberal institutionalists see institutions as what

Answer 6

Mediators and the means to achieve cooperation
They help govern a competitive and anarchic international system
They encourage multilateralism and cooperation as a means of securing national interests