Liberalism (international relations)

The term describes liberalism in international relations a broad school of thought that tries to explain the behavior of political actors to each other on an international scale. This applies to the significant anthropological assumptions of the same political theory of liberalism. He is the dominant theory of realism opposed and represents a further development of liberalism in the interwar period represents the realists had despised as EH Carr as " idealism ". A distinction is liberalism in international relations from neoliberalism, which mainly studied the formation, effectiveness and durability of international organizations.

Liberalism sees, unlike many realists, the internal conditions of a political actor, such as a State, for whose international behavior as instrumental. A plurality of liberal researcher assigns to rationalist approaches to explanation, but also constructivist theories entrance found in liberalism. Is considered to be unclear so far, what influence the internal political process in comparison to the constitution of a political community.