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Economic Liberalism In International Relations

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In the field of International relations, ‘territory’ is recognized as an important cause of war. However, there is a shortage as to what mechanism to employ in resolving disputes that are caused on the bases of territory. When it comes to conflict and cooperation in international politics, imminent states’ behavioral motivations has been analyzed by International relation theory. As looking at the key assumption of neorealist paradigm line of reasoning is that international system is anarchic. The distribution of material power among states structures the international system. This phenomenon, in turn, influences how states behave one another within the system. Thus if we apply the power factor of the realist paradigm here, one obvious insight …show more content…

Even though the implications it vested on bringing territorially conflicting states together is crucial, economic liberalism is not sufficient to addressing the problems of territorial conflict per se. Prior to every implication the remedy it provides, which is deepening and widening economic interdependence between the conflicting states, wouldn’t resolve territorial disputes specifically and directly. Furthermore, economic ties not all the time brings states together, it can also have negative consequences, especially to those involved in a territorial dispute. Turning to the second factor of neoliberal international relation, to liberal institutionalism it puts its centerpiece of at international institutions. Means although institutions can’t eradicate anarchy they still can influence states preference and by that to their actions. Therefore the role of institutions in preventing or mitigating …show more content…

However since states often perceive to identify the area of dispute as a crucial part of their history or dignity, territorial conflicts are entangled together with the question of national identity. In resolving those territorial disputes direct negotiations between the contending states is useful and often necessary, but employing the pathway of constructivist approach makes the resolution mechanism an indirect one. Because while constructivism paradigm sets it focus to involve part of long ‘historical’ as well as social process, territorial disputes ,with their tendency to escalate to physical conflict more easily and quickly , may came out of control than other security

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