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This is where 'the paradigm' flips to the other side. The issue here is post-1989 - is realism compatible with the post-Cold War cooperation among states? What about neo-realism? Read some Waltz. Realism is simply reconciled with the Cold War: the struggle for hegemony, obsession with national security, and the zero-sum politics that typified the bipolar system. This isn't something I've looked at in a while, so I'll just throw out a few things loosely. Do you want explanations or pointers? It should be fairly easy for you to figure out what the Cold War means to your basic tenets of realism and liberalism. You should be able to find plenty out there on both. Liberals, of course, believed that world order could only be achieved by international liberal institutions - expansionist liberal imperialism. The Soviet Union was a threat to liberal ideas as they viewed the Soviets as promoting international communism.
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Liberalism is based on multiparty-democracy, free market, equality before the law. However, during the Cold War the politics of the Soviet Union were incompatible with liberal views. It is these institutions that provide order in the world and control the power of self-interested states. The establishment of the United Nations, Bretton Woods Institutions, Nato are all liberal ideas. Liberals see transnational institutions as the mechanism for maintaining order. Liberals see the Cold War in a different way. Order is achieved through this balance of power. It's a permanent stand off that both states mutually benefit from. Each state does not want to push the other too far but just threaten far enough to defend itself. It is about two states dominating and acting in their own interests. Realists see the Cold War as maintaining a "balance of power".