Liberalism
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Global Issues in the Perspective of Liberal Theory
Kosrat Khdir Abubakr, Anwar Mohammed Faraj
Global issues play a central role in world politics on in practice, and they also hold a prominent place in the theoretical literature on international relations research. While the literature on realism divides global issues into high-policy and low-policy issues, the main question with this study is whether liberal theoretical orientations concur with that belief? The main aim of the study will be to answer this question and clarify what and how liberal theoretical perspectives address major global issues. With this objective in mind, the study relies on several key assumptions of liberal theory, especially regarding the rejection of pyramid hierarchy of global issues or their classification into high-policy and low-policy issues. Nonetheless, certain liberal theoretical stances firmly hold that collaboration on artistic and scientific matters is more successful and that this kind of achievement would foster greater cooperation in resolving global political, military, and strategic concerns and crises. Consequently, in order to answer the main question of the study, achieve its objectives and prove its main hypotheses, the research depends on each of the methods of deductive method, analysis and comparative method. In order to achieve this, the paper is divided into two main discussions, each with two main themes. This research will be very important to Kurdish academic center because there isn't much scientific research on the topic in Kurdish. It also has some valuable scientific results because it draws on several original sources in English.
Volume 8 · Issue 2 · June 2021The Concept of Freedom in liberalism’s Thought, for Instance: Friedrich .A. Von Hayek's Vision
Jabar Ismael Ahmed
Liberalism thus views the concept of freedom as a fundamental element of its intellectual foundation and without access to and defense of freedom, there is no meaning for the existence and survival of liberals. Due to the wide range of views of liberalism and the differences of opinion of liberal thinkers and different trends, attitudes and views on different freedoms, for example some of the thinkers believe in the interference of the state power in personal freedoms with the goal of creating social justice and economic justice and so on..., such as the thinkers of the Social liberal trend in the thought of liberalism, But some other thinkers believe in the protection of individual freedoms from interfering of the power of the state, and reject any form of interference in freedom, such as thinkers of the Libertarians trend in the thought of liberalism, including (Friedrich A. von Hayek). These two views of liberalism are expressed in terms of freedom, as: positive freedom (when the state intervenes in freedoms), and negative freedom (that freedom is protected from the interference of state power). (Hayek) rejects positive freedom and believes that any interference in the freedom, economy, and property of individuals, commodities, and markets, leads to the deterioration of the security and stability of individuals on one hand, and the creation of an oppressive, tyrannical and dictatorial power or regime on the other hand. This condition becomes the cause and means of the departure of individuals and the coexistence of the living system to slavery.