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What is Liberalism

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  • concerned with the freedom of the individual

- Importance of moral freedom (right to and duty to be treated equally)

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The Liberal Zone of Peace

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  • Generally peace between liberals since 18th

- Liberal states, in conflicts, generally end up on the same side

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Laissez-Faire Liberalism

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  • highly constrained role for state

- wide role for private property and market

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Welfare Liberalism

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  • expanded role of state

- constricted role of market

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Liberal Imprudence

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  • liberal states do make war/conflict
  • invade weaker non-liberal states
  • distrust powerful non-liberal states
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Liberalism in FPA

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  • defined by concern for: individual rights, private property, representative government
  • Share a zone of peace with other liberal states
  • concern also for the international (but international does not override the state)
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Anarchy to Liberals

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  • not a state of war / no zero-sum game

- instead, positive or negative-sum game

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First Image Lockean Liberalism

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  • importance of life, liberty, and property / importance of individuals
  • world in a state of ‘troubled peace’
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Second Image Commercial Liberalism

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  • focus on domestic social forces
  • representative government contributes to peace
    • because in this people bear the cost of war
  • cause for liberal zone of peace is commerce and interdependence therein
  • People are: individualistic, rational, egoistic
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Third Image Kantian Liberalism

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  • Peace achieved under three conditions
    • Representative Republican Government
    • Commitment to peace based on respect of Uni. rights
    • Possibility of social and economic interdependence
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Liberal Strategy in the World System

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  • So that liberal community may grow
  • Preserve
    • protect community and manage tension among liberal market economies
  • Expand
    • ‘city on a hill’ expansion
  • Preservation
    • preserve union between liberal states for strategic value and for hope of a peaceful world