Liberalism and

the Liberal
World Order
What is Liberalism?
Are you a Liberal. If so, what makes you a
liberal?
One Liberalism
or many
Liberalisms?
 You are not a liberal if you believe in

• Large and powerful government

• Expansive welfare state system
• Strive for engineered economical equality
• High progressive taxes and wealth redistribution
• State interference in the market
• Communitarianism
• Curtailing of free trade
• Nationalisation of public goods and services
• High taxes and wealth redistirbution
• In budget deficits (debt) as opposed to budget surpluses
• State interference in competition (e.g. curtailing monopolies in society)
• State interference in private liberties (private property rights)
• Community over the individual
 You are a Social
Democrat (Socialist)
which is NOT a Liberal
(Libertarian) in the
traditional sense of the
term
 A social democrat (Social Liberal) is in fact illiberal to a Classical
Liberal (Libertarian). Social democrats advocate state interference
into the private life and curtailing of personal economic choice and
opportunity for the greater good. It values society over the individual.
Conservative with
Classical Liberal
Qualities
Thatcherism was
built on Classical
Liberalism
Are Liberals left wing or right wing?
What are the
tenets of
Liberal
Democracy?
What is the role
of capitalism in
Liberal
Democracy?
Why do Liberal Democracies not go to war With other
Liberal Democracies?
 What is the
Liberal
International
Order? How do
we identify it?