THE DEBATE BETWEEN CLASSICAL REALISM AND UTOPIAN IDEALISM ON COLLECTIVE SECURITY IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD
THE DEBATE BETWEEN CLASSICAL REALISM AND UTOPIAN IDEALISM ON COLLECTIVE SECURITY IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to analyze the main ideas of realism and utopian idealism in the international relations of the interwar period and how they have been applied. In the beginning, the exponential theories of the two currents issued by their most important representatives will be presented, focusing on the realists Edward-Hallet Carr and Hans Morgenthau. In the second part of the paper, the way the League of Nations functions according to the principles of utopian idealism and the causes that led to its failure at the beginning of the Second World War, as well as the most important critics brought by the realists, will be exposed. Finally, an analysis will be made of how realists believe that the League of Nations could have functioned effectively and would not have reached the outbreak of war.

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