According to theorists such as Robert Keohane, international institutions have played major roles in resolving conflict, promoting states' interests, and advocating for inter-state cooperation in the modern era. International institutions and international law are instruments of communication that maintain order by helping states to clarify their interests. International organizations provide unconditional assistance to post-transitional states that does not create dependent and indebted recipient states. Because international organizations have numerous state-members, foreign aid cannot be rooted in the self-interest of one country or group of countries. Although international organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, can and do place restrictions on their foreign assistance, these conditions are based on the charter or mission of the organization itself and, therefore, are normatively distinct from conditions placed by individual states. We ultimately examine liberalist thought and the role of international institutions within the context of some of the defining conflicts of the 21st century.
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LIBERALISM BY CONFLICT
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