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Divided by the Atlantic: Classical Liberals and Libertarians on International Order

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Rohac, Dalibor "Divided by the Atlantic: Classical Liberals and Libertarians on International Order" Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 99999., 2024, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.2024.360044
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Divided by the Atlantic: Classical Liberals and Libertarians on International Order

Rohac, Dalibor

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. (2024), Online First : pp. 1–18

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Dalibor Rohac, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1789 Massachusetts Avenue, NW 20036 Washington, DC, USA

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Abstract

Classical liberals have been more preoccupied by domestic policy and institutions than by international affairs. This paper makes the case for a classical liberal foreign policy outlook that could address the collective challenges facing free societies. In the United States, libertarian foreign policy thinking has been outsourced to structural realism. However, in the form in which it is deployed to make the case for restraint, such realism often contradicts basic analytic and normative tenets of classical liberalism. The current international situation is a wake-up call for classical liberals to rethink and update their foreign policy intuition to an era in which the international environment seems less conducive to classical liberal values than much of the post-war period.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Dalibor Rohac: Divided by the Atlantic: Classical Liberals and Libertarians on International Order 1
1. Introduction 1
2. From International Federalism to Restraint 4
3. Strange Bedfellows 8
4. A Foreign Policy Agenda for Classical Liberals 12
References 15

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