THE FAILURE OF LIBERALISM IN THE FACE OF HUMANITARIAN ISSUES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Abstract

In the framework of the policies and practices of Western liberal states on some international issues, this article intends to analyse the failure of liberalism from a humanitarian perspective. Political analysis focused on liberalism – particularly after the collapse of USSR and the end of the Cold War – claims that it is a triumphant ideology, and that a liberal global system dominated is more a peaceful one. Alas, reality paints an opposite picture, particularly from the 1990s onwards. Despite its success at the national stage, liberal interventionism in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Libya, the prolonged fatal unresponsiveness to the genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, the events in Palestine, and the policies of Western liberal countries (with a colonial pasts) have all caused disappointment when it comes to hope of a liberal victory at the global level. This in turn demonstrates that liberalism is not victorious at the global level, but rather has failed in world where basic humanitarian principles are frequently sacrificed for economic interests