Theoretical Application

Andrés Navas, Andrés Ponce Flecher.

Theoretical Assumptions for Liberalism

1. The main actor is the United Nation (Peace of

Westphalia (1648). 1. Liberal democracies tend to be more pacific
than other forms of government.
2. Regarding the exercise of power, liberalism rests
on the domain of values and ideals that favor 2. They focus on: norms, international
the conditions for cooperation (Perpetual organizations, economic institutions, and
Peace). regimes.
3. Its main axis of action is the domestic sphere 3. Hard check on principles and institutions,
recognizable by certain characteristics. (Doyle
4. For liberalism the nature of the international
1997 pg. 206)
system is not anarchic, but is based on harmony.
4. Liberalism believes in at least possibility of
5. For liberalism, peace consists of the absence of
cumulative progress. (David L. pg. 22)
obstacles to share the same values / ideas.
5. Use of military force to achieve freedoms for
6. For liberalism, war is based on the
those who suffer oppression by nondemocratic
incompatibility between values and ideals
governance. (David L. pg. 25)
7. Its historical and bibliographic references are:
6. Belief in reduces state control over the lives of
Wilson's 14 points (1918), The Society of Nations
persons subject to the authority of a state.
(1920), the Briand - Kellogg Pact (1928), the
Atlantic Charter (1941), Kant, Immanuel (2003)
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