• Different Theories In International Relations

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Anthropological Liberals’ Optimism The main opponents of realists were and still are the liberals. At the same time, the liberal paradigm shares some basic options. Like the realists, the liberals usually regard the modern West countries as the universal standard, which is used in their theoretical thinking. However, the liberals differ from the realists on several positions. First of all, contrary to the realists, liberals think that the nature of human society, and its political representation as the State, is exposed qualitatively to changes (supposing in a good way). Therefore, the political form of society can evolve and at some point leave the State’s grasp, national egoism and individualism. And, in turn, that means that cooperation, interaction and integration between different States on the basis of “moral ideals and common values is possible under some circumstances.

In their philosophical works, the liberals are inspired by Locke’s ideas on human nature’s neutrality, its ability to be improved through education, like the realists’ being inspired by Hobbes' concept that the human is naturally egoistic, aggressive and evil (his famous affirmation “homo homini lupus est”). Contrary to realists who regard the State as the main actor in the processes that pass in International Relations independently of one or another political regime, system or ideological specialty, liberals themselves pay attention to the issue of whether a political regime in one or another State is regarded as democratic or not, based on the facts created in their IR concepts. The decisive factor is whether the State is democratic or not (this includes parliament, market, freedom of the media, separation of powers, elections etc.). For the adherents of the liberal paradigm, relations between democratic States offer the other structures the relations between other non-democratic States and between non-democratic and democratic States.

Different Theories In International Relations

Liberals are sure that developed democracy in the home policy radically influences the foreign politics of the State. The IR theory of liberalism is based on an important statement: “democracies don't attack one another”. This means that democratic regimes concern each other as the citizens in the State: instead of aggression, constraint, violence or hierarchy etc., relations are based on peaceful competition, concerning the right priority, the rationalization of relations and actions. Democracy can be repeated at the International Relations level, liberals say.

That means this IR theory is not the fight of all against all and satisfying one’s own egoism, but the so-called “Locke’s anarchy” (or “Kant’s anarchy”, according to A. Peaceful and open partnership between different States, even if their national interests contradict each other (on the contrary to “Hobbes’ anarchy” claiming that the State is a wolf, which the realists believed in). On the basis of the democratic platform, it is possible to create traditional structures to turn the system into chaos. Main Principles of IR theory of Liberalism The IR school of liberalism opposes the main thesis of the IR school of realism.