The Rumours of the Crisis of Liberal Interventionism Are Greatly Exaggerated

Gorm Rye Olsen
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Gorm Rye Olsen: Department for Social Sciences & Business, Roskilde University, Denmark

Politics and Governance, 2024, vol. 12

Abstract: The Western reactions to the Russian assault on Ukraine in 2022 were surprisingly united and tangible. This article argues that the intervention in the Russia–Ukraine war was a continuation of other liberal interventions that took place earlier in the current century. This article claims that there is no crisis of liberal interventionism because foreign policy decision-makers in the US agree that (liberal) interventions in foreign countries can serve the national interests of the US as well as the interests of the people in the countries affected. There is no crisis because the transatlantic partners in Europe backed the US in the interventions. Finally, there is no crisis of liberal interventionism because the domestic opposition in the US and Europe is too weak to restrain the liberal interventionist mood among Western governments. Liberal interventionism is still on the agenda.

Keywords: democratic peace theory; foreign policy elite; liberal interventionism; national strategic culture; public opinion; solidarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.17645/pag.7352

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