... relinquish its role as the primary player, giving way to some sort of global society which would have replaced what has been considered an international anarchy. These three points are often characterized as the structure of the nation-state system. It is up for debate whether all of these ... attempts at causing mass casualties, the idea that they attempt to do this because their networked structure makes them less vulnerable to state and international persecution has not proven true at all. The motivations of such organizations to inflict death is quite beyond the reasoning involved wi...

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... that power politics itself is the product of ideas, and crucially, ideas can change. So, even if the world hasn't been accommodating 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 ... peace and prosperity were part of a latent natural order. The most famous advocate of an international authority for the management of international relations was Woodrow Wilson. According to the US President, peace could only be sec...

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