... to liberalism to date, this does not mean that it cannot be made into a liberal world order. Given this disposition, it is not surprising that Liberalism is described in the literature as the `tradition of optimism' (Clark 1989: 49-66). While the belief in the possibility of progress is one identifier of a liberal approach to politics, there are other ... Rome in 1956. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation of scholars (particularly in the US) influenced by the European integration literature, began to examine in greater analytical depth the impact of modernization on the st...

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