International Relations/Realism vs Liberalism - Social Studies
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Social Studies
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GCSE
Notes are about International Relations, focusing mostly on principles of Realism, Liberalism and comparing them. This note consists of two subtopics and a review.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS/REALISM VS LIBERALISM - SOCIAL STUDIES
Liberalism in International Relations
• We are all a community, we can build a world together
• There are good countries and bad ones
• Normative= judges things as good and bad, opposite of realism, black and white
• EVERYONE IS THE SAME ( same desire - to be free )
• Sel shness is good
• International Humanitarian Law
• Customary International Law ( automatic )
• Law of the Sea
• International Human Rights Law
• Key principles:
◦ interdependence
◦ international community
◦ more cooperation
◦ we are dependent on each other
◦ domestic a airs matter
• Cosmopolitan; “global citizens”
• Democratic Peace = democracies are less likely to engage in war
• Democrats think of non-democrats as dogs/mad people
• Economic Peace = countries with linked economies will not ght
• These peaces empower liberals to try to change the world around them
• Liberals ght non-democracies
Realism Liberalism
Human nature Sel sh-seeking power Sel sh-seeking freedom
International Anarchy - survival of the Anarchy - but with rules/organisations
system ttest ( NGOs civil society )
Ma a land International community
Theories Not normative Normative
Domestic a airs don’t Domestic a airs matter
matter Democracies don’t ght
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