Flashcards on The Liberal International Order: Evolution and Crisis
The Liberal International Order: Evolution, Crisis & Future
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Theory of the Liberal International Order
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Card 1
Question: What does the term "liberal international order" mean, according to the text?
Answer: A post-war arrangement where liberal democracies form a cooperative security community with universal rights, institutions, rules, and mutual protecti
Card 2
Question: What ideas did the reformulation of the liberal order in the 1940s emphasize?
Answer: An emphasis on universal rights and protections, particularly embodied in FDR's concept of the Four Freedoms (of speech, of worship, from want, and fr
Card 3
Question: What was the political context that legitimized the spread of universal rights in the post-war liberal order?
Answer: The legitimization was linked to American leadership and the Cold War struggle — universal rights were presented as part of the American fight against
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Question: According to the text, what type of international space was the post-war liberal order intended to create?
Answer: A "security community" — a global space where liberal democracies cooperate, share rules, and provide mutual protection and economic benefits.
Card 5
Question: What was the role of states that were "inside" the liberal order?
Answer: Inside the order, states gained trade, a growing economy, tools for economic stabilization, and security guarantees through alliances and organization
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Question: What was the contrast between "inside" and "outside" the liberal order as described in the text?
Answer: Inside was "warmth" (benefits, protection), while outside was "cold" — meaning the absence of these advantages and protections.
Card 7
Question: Which aspect of the liberal international order became explicitly tied to American leadership?
Answer: The ideas and principles of universal rights and protection became more closely linked to an American-led political order — with the U.S. as the hegem
Card 8
Question: What relationship emerged between the American domestic system and the post-war liberal order?
Answer: The American market and political system "merged" with the developing post-war liberal order, making the U.S. significantly intertwined with the funct
Card 9
Question: According to the text, what was a key economic building block of the American liberal order?
Answer: Open multilateral trade as the central vision of the post-war American architects of the order.
Card 10
Question: What does the theory of liberal international order generally describe?
Answer: A vision of an order where sovereign states, led by liberal democracies, cooperate for mutual benefit and protection within a free, to some extent rul