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What are the major critiques of liberal internationalism?

  • UPSC 2009
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Liberal internationalism holds that free trade, democracy, international law and institutions can tame anarchy and produce a cooperative order. It runs from Immanuel Kant and Woodrow Wilson's League to the post-1945 order that G. John Ikenberry calls a liberal Leviathan (2011). It has drawn criticism from every major rival tradition, and from its own record.

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  • The realist critique
  • The Marxist and critical critique
  • The post-colonial critique
  • The pluralist and communitarian critique
  • Empirical weaknesses
  • An assessment
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