How Did Semprogredino Adopt Liberalism
Semprogredino’s Foreign Policy
A. International Relations Theory
Semprogredino adopts liberal internationlism as its foreign policy in order to keep peace in the world and reach harmony of interests.
i. Liberalism
Liberalism, also often called idealism, is a state level thory which argues that “there is lot of cooperation in the world, not jst rivalry.” (Newmann, 2009) In the real life, the most prominent example of implementing liberalism is in Woodrow Wilson’s presidency. The fourteen points created by him explicitly explained common principles of liberalism such as advocating the spread of democracy and capitalism as well as opposing to isolationism at the same time. In the case of Semprogredino, even though we adopted a modified version …show more content…
What needs to be mentioned here is that the idea of “Balance of Power” proposed by realists is not suitable in the Utopia circumstance. According to Mearsheimer, the founder of offensive realism, “a great power can, and should, try ‘to gain as much power as possible and , if the circumstances are right, to pursue hegemony.” However, his assumption that leads to this conclusion is that “we are forced to live in an enviroonment of significant insecurity and the ultimate goal of each gret power is survival”. Since Utopias all avoid this sense of insecurity and survival is not a problem in this circumstance, it is firm to believe complex interdepence will exist rather than balancing of power. Complec interdepence, involved the use of multiple channels of action between socities in interstate, transgovernmental and transnational relations, would “encourage international trade and creation of multinational firms as well as reducing global inequality.” (Keohane & Nye, 1997) In the real life example, relations among the major Western powerss fit a model of complex interdepence very
A. International Relations Theory
Semprogredino adopts liberal internationlism as its foreign policy in order to keep peace in the world and reach harmony of interests.
i. Liberalism
Liberalism, also often called idealism, is a state level thory which argues that “there is lot of cooperation in the world, not jst rivalry.” (Newmann, 2009) In the real life, the most prominent example of implementing liberalism is in Woodrow Wilson’s presidency. The fourteen points created by him explicitly explained common principles of liberalism such as advocating the spread of democracy and capitalism as well as opposing to isolationism at the same time. In the case of Semprogredino, even though we adopted a modified version …show more content…
What needs to be mentioned here is that the idea of “Balance of Power” proposed by realists is not suitable in the Utopia circumstance. According to Mearsheimer, the founder of offensive realism, “a great power can, and should, try ‘to gain as much power as possible and , if the circumstances are right, to pursue hegemony.” However, his assumption that leads to this conclusion is that “we are forced to live in an enviroonment of significant insecurity and the ultimate goal of each gret power is survival”. Since Utopias all avoid this sense of insecurity and survival is not a problem in this circumstance, it is firm to believe complex interdepence will exist rather than balancing of power. Complec interdepence, involved the use of multiple channels of action between socities in interstate, transgovernmental and transnational relations, would “encourage international trade and creation of multinational firms as well as reducing global inequality.” (Keohane & Nye, 1997) In the real life example, relations among the major Western powerss fit a model of complex interdepence very