Liberalism Theory In International Relations

During cold war period, realistic scholarship has been dominating the stage in international policy making, which providing the guide and reason for American politician to start a military race with the Soviet Union. However, the collapse of the Soviet Union led the world into a new global stage of corporation in international relationship, so the liberalism theory that demonstrates corporation may seem more a appropriate theory in guiding policy making than realism theory. However, the essential in international relationship between states remains unchanged because the fundamental of human nature is the same. Hence, realism theory should be still considered the most important factor to formulate foreign policy in contemporary international

Liberalism emphasizes democracy on making international corporation available. The democratic peace theory also highlights democratic states are less likely to have war with each others. Secondly, non state actors, such as red cross and human right watch, have the same important role in the international stage than government-state actor. Finally, international organizations and global civil can nonetheless generate spaces for cooperation and create the conditions for meaningful joint action.(Ikenberry) Liberalism and realism focus on different sides of human nature(Neusiedi). Realism bases on the assumption of human nature is evil. For example, human is selfish and greedy, and these emphasizes it is nature for human to seek power for domination. Therefore, the reason states have conflict with each other is not just because of lack of communication, but it is more based on states naturally trying to seek power and domination position. On the other sides, liberalism bases on the assumption of human nature is good such that human is able to help and trust each

Realism explain military and security issue enough but underestimate the influence of global connection to peace and stable; It also ignore the influence of non-state actors. Liberalism, on the other hands, focus on the global corporation on economic and culture, but it is still not sufficient to explain the problems of terrorism, ethical conflict, sexism, and international conflict. Indeed, each international theory only focus on one perspective so there are won 't be one international theory that can use to explain all international phenomenons. In other words, there will not be a single theory able to provide the best compass for formulating foreign policy in every