International Relations and Conflict Resolution

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Introduction
Debates regarding the prospect of relationships amongst the most developed industrial
nations following the Cold War pivot on premises concerning the origins of global political
order. Thus, the conclusion of Cold War generated novel debates concerning international
relations theory (IR). The predominance of the concentration has been directed on describing the
conclusion of Cold War. Realism developments the mainly defined solutions hinging on theories
of anarchy, hegemony, as well as balance1. Realist stability of power hypothesis maintains that
Western organizations are the outcome of balancing to counteract the Soviet menace that offered
the motivation for Western nations to collaborate. However, these theories cannot elucidate the
sources along with ongoing constancy of relations amongst the United States (US), and it
European along with the Asian colleagues2. The essay will look at the survival or failure of the
liberal order depending on the on the success/survival of (democratic) Western style states in the
world and the best perspective between realist and liberal in understanding the history of regional
security organizations3.
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1 Haass, Richard N., “The Unraveling: How to Respond to a Disordered World,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 93, No.
6. (2014):70.
2 Fonte, John. Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others? (New
York and London: Encounter Books, 2011), 46.
3 Kupchan, Charles, A. No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn. (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2012) 59.

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The liberal international order, which surfaced following the 1945, was loose range of
multilateral organizations, where the United States offered international public goods, like free
trade along with the liberty of the seas plus less established democracies were granted
institutional entrée to the exercise of the US supremacy. The Bretton Woods organizations such
as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as World Bank was established whilst the war
was still going on. Until now, the desirability along with sustainability of the liberal order has
been questioned by the Western democracies regarding its efficiency. Donald Trump has claimed
that the expenses of the sustaining the order overshadow its gains whereby Washington could be
better off dealing with its relations with other nations on case-by-case transactional foundation,
ensuring it “flourishes” other than “loses” on every deal. Many critics argue that the basis of the
liberal order is eroding due to the long-standing international supremacy transition that involves
theatrical growing of Asian economies, which include China, and India. In addition, liberal order
has been threatened by the extensive distribution of power from states to non-state players
because of the transformations in technology, politics, and community. Thus, the liberal order is
facing the greatest challenges in generations4.
In the last decade, rocked by financial turmoil, populist revolutions, as well as the revival
of authoritarian influences, the liberal order has faltered and the future is bleak. Based on
political scientist, Larry Diamond, from 2006, the globed has penetrated to a “democratic
depression” where the diffusion of person liberty along with the democracy has to come to a
stop, if not withdrawn. The primary threat emanates from within5. The system’s principal powers
4 Stepan, Alfred & Linz, Juan, J. “Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and the Quality of Democracy in
the Unites States,” Perspectives on Politics 9, no. 4, (July 2011)841–56.
5 Kissinger, Henry. World Order. (New York: Penguin Press, 2014), 112-27.