Placing Smuts and Nehru within the broader liberal paradigm, we come to a picture that is both global and local, contextual and textual, historical and contemporary.
Liberalism is not a ‘utopian’ theory describing a dream world as it was once accused of being. It provides a consistent rejoinder to realism, firmly rooted in evidence.
We have yet to settle whether the features of liberal democracy are inherent to the system itself, or to particular contexts in which the system is installed.
A lively, readable and relevant foundational introduction to IR theory that will help students to see not only what theories are, but why they matter.
The global liberal order still represents the best option for a peaceful and prosperous future, but it will need to be reformed or it will become moribund.
The approaches in IR theory each possess a legitimate, yet different, view. They offer a means by which to attempt to understand a complex and frequently changing world.
A distaste for liberal utilitarianism could serve as common ground for mounting any campaign for a coherent alternative to modern ethical systems.
In IR a state can typically take three approaches: cooperation, unilateralism or inactivity. Within the realm of climate diplomacy, we witness states playing all these roles.
The more belief and behaviour merge in the minds of policy drafters and radical atheists, the more liberty of conscience becomes ethically untenable.
Ivan Krastev discusses Russia’s troubled relationship with the West, the problems with democratic triumphalism, and the role of the EU in the post-Cold War world.
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