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Pluralism/Liberalism. States are not unitary Challenges utility and rationality assumptions-rationality is bounded Agenda of international politics is extensive. Liberalism variants. Commercial liberalism- Democratic liberalism Regulatory liberalism. Liberal states are different.
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Pluralism/Liberalism States are not unitary Challenges utility and rationality assumptions-rationality is bounded Agenda of international politics is extensive
Liberalism variants • Commercial liberalism- • Democratic liberalism • Regulatory liberalism
Liberal states are different • Schumpeter-correlation btw. Liberalism-capitalism-democracy Liberal institutions pacify • Machiavelli-republican states have a better chance for survival and expansion • Kant- liberal institutions/common norms road to peace
Democratic Peace • Democracies rarely fight with each other • 1982-Democratic peace- Bruce Russett • Is it because of norms that democracies have or increased costs of war for democracies? • Is it norm-based or utility based?