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Guiding question: Under what circumstances is it permissible to impose liberalism on other states? Write analysis oF the quote
“Apart  from national self-interest , another common for imposing liberalism on another country is humanitariani belief that a situation demands intervention for moral or eth reasons, such as the improvement of the living conditions of the population. For example, philosopher John Rawls argues that liberal countries should not tolerate other non-liberal countries that do not observe human rights and that intervention may be justified in such cases. At the same time , he states that liberal democracies cannot intervene in other countries solely because they do not embrace liberalism. In his account of the foreign affairs of liberal peoples, Rawls argues that liberal peoples must distinguish "decent " non-liberal societies from "outlaw " and other statesthe former have a claim on liberal peoples to tolerance while the latter do not. Decent peoples , argues Rawls , "simply do not e^ prime prime outlaw states which ignore human rights : such states may be subject to "forceful sanctions and even to intervention ." In contrast , Rawls insists that "liberal peoples must try to encourage (non - liberal decent peoples and not frustrate their vitality by coercively insisting that all societies be liberal” . - 50 : "Liberalism ." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (cited on p. 105).
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Under what circumstances is it permissible to impose liberalism on other states?

Rawls believed that liberal democracies should not intervene in other countries just because those countries do not embrace liberalism. Instead, "liberal peoples must try to encourage non-liberal decent peoples and not frustrate their vitality by coercively [with force] insisting that all societies be liberal." However, if the non-liberal country does not promote or observe humanitarian principals, liberal countries should not tolerate those countries, and intervention may be justified in such cases. United states foreign policies usually use this to justify a geopolitical war; as in the US-Iraq war, US used the fact that Saddam Hussein gassed the northern Kurds, and thus the war was justified. The same could be said a few years ago with Syria. Many people consider this an excuse to invade a country for its resources.
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