INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Norman Angell, Realpolitik, The Tradition

• School: University of Florida
• Department: International Relations
• Course: INR 2001
• Professor: Laura E Sjoberg

Document Summary

Liberalisms: the idealist tradition in ir. Often portrayed as the opposite of realism. Has many facets, but they are linked by the idea that anarchy can be tamed. Be aware that the label liberal is preferred by members of the community because idealist was a mean name realists called them. They are liberals, not liberalists: the tradition . Starts with norman angell, the great illusion. Then wwii: the lineage of liberal thought. Locke and kant suggested it is possible to make the world more peaceful. Is it time for liberalism again: leading idealist charles kegley thinks so. Written at the end of the cold war, in a period of profound change . The de ning moment of the end of the cold war transcends realpolitik and shows we can have idealist ideas again: russett"s big changes in the world that go together. Big drop in the number of autocracies and increase in democracies in the world.