Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the debates on neoliberalism and neorealism in international relation (IR) theories. It also contains a recommendation for harmonising neoliberal and neorealist thoughts in the theory of international relations, because it could offer relevant answers to global challenges of the 21st century. Leaving pessimistic and utopian attitudes behind is one of the keys for the understanding of current issues and relations between nation states. The twentieth century created a gap from the differences between the two theories that have always been clearly visible, which was caused by the disparity of imaging human nature. This difference between neoliberalism and neorealism hinders in the co-operation between the two groups of scholars however the harmonisation of IR theories would help to understand the world today, and it would assist in searching for the solution to global problems in practice. Keywords: liberalism, realism, neoliberalism, neorealism, IR theories, debate, harmonisation

Nationally and internationally, contact generates

The United States and the Soviet Union behave differently from such countries as Germany and Japan because the latter are no longer great power

world politics today is a matterof life and death – not just for soldiers or citizens caught in the path of war, but for the whole human race’

(“they saw different realities”) „(…) political scientists have so far been unable

to show that either of these understandings of the world better explains how states actually behave”

The secret of liberal success in the nineteenth-century in Europe/North America and in the twentieth-century world was this liberal strategy of consensus politics based on a coherent dosage of reforms. This liberal political strategy became one pillar of the geoculture of the world-system.”

utopian liberalism

Perceptual Peace’

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According to Hobbes, men’s lives are full of cruelty, brutish egotism and unconstrained passion that is directed by insecurity and fear in the state of nature”.

Theory of international politics

liberalism is not “domestic politics”

compared to realism, these earlier versions of liberal institutionalism offered a more hopeful prognosis for international cooperation and a more optimistic assessment of the capacity of institutions to help states achieve it”

“The Purposes of the United Nations are: To maintain international peace and security, (…); To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace; (…) to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, (…) to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends”

as well environmentally and biologically relevant substances (such as acid rain or pathogens).”

WaltzTheory of International Politics’

The greatest advantage of democracies in comparison to dictatorships is that in a democracy there is always a counter-motivation that is also trying to gain power – so it does not trust in a developing human nature, it trusts in stability of institutions.”

In a self-help system, considerations of security subordinate economic gain to political interest.”

relative capabilities relative power

a few and important things’

hegemony

power-state’ constitutional state’

that stipulate the ways in which states should cooperate and compete with each other.”

Liberal factors such as domestic state structures and constructivist factors such as strategic culture and nationalism also affect state behaviour.”

large changes are accumulation of small decisions’

“internationalinterests must be served”

Thus, active international commerce tends to be an important force driving cultural evolution, particularly the basic technical aspects of culture.”

Treaty of Rome

linkageissue-areas

A global era requires global engagement.

The CEPR study predicts that an ambitious TTIP deal would increase the size of the EU economy around €120 billion (or 0.5% of GDP) and the US by €95 billion (or 0.4% of GDP). This would be a permanentincrease in the amount of wealth that the European and American economies can produce every year.”

(…) we have now concluded and put into effect the trade agreement with Canada means that Europe is able to form the globalisation. Creating free trade areas that are based on values – like respecting human rights, workers’ rights, animal welfare, origins of products.

“Liberal trade policy has lifted millions out of poverty. (…) The fact is, that transparent, value based trade has much to offer to our societies.”

the robust argument beside the minimum-state falls”

historical debate

The basis of the debate humannature

Finishing the attitude of exclusion and harmonising the two theories would open a new door for making recommendations for the global challenges. The art of competition where there is no space for the ideas or thoughts of another conception but now there is a historical turning point that can change the solution seeking at the global level if the two group of scholars start to lend ideas from each other.

helping those that are unlucky

equal opportunity for

all

developed trading partners”

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