Locke, Liberalism, and International Relations.

Liberalism has traditionally been depicted as the progressive alternative to international theory and practice dominated by realism. This categorization, however, necessarily rests on a particular understanding of liberalism that may itself be in need of revision - or ideological, as Andrew Moravcsik put it. Taking up this challenge, Moravcsik attempts to formulate an explicitly 'nonideological' liberal theory of international relations. This theory, I will show, is itself deeply ideological - both in terms of his own criteria and in terms of a broader conception of ideology. By drawing on the work of John Locke, this paper shows that Moravcsik systematically excludes the conditions of emergence and historical development as well as liberal/nonliberal relations from his conception of liberalism - and thus the political nature of the liberal project. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]