LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND ITS FEATURES DURING THE COLD WAR

Abstract

This article emphasises the main features of the liberal international order during the Cold War. The introductory part of the article discusses the concept of order and the ideas of John Mearsheimer, one of the leading scholars of the realist school, regarding order, and states that Ikenberry and Doydney are trying to respond to neorealists’ arguments through the theory of structural liberalism. Then, I briefly touch on why and how the liberal international order was formed after World War II. The next section focuses on the theory of structural liberalism put forward by John Ikenberry and Daniel Deudney and here co-binding, penetrated reciprocal hegemony, the semi-sovereign and partial great power status of Germany and Japan, the free movement of goods and services between liberal democracies and a common civic identity of Western citizens that includes similar values are seen as key features of the liberal international order.