ABSTRACT
The doctrinaire liberal regimes are those that promote the freedom of the individual, the benefits of hard work and industry, and the perceived evils of interventionist government. North American, Australasian and Western European countries generally may be classified as belonging broadly to this model, although the development of the welfare state has affected the application of the model to some degree. Anne-Marie Slaughter's version of liberal theory builds upon Andrew Moravcsik's challenge to prevailing state-centric theories of international relations, including most prominently, realism. Slaughter's liberal theory has both a philosophical and an empirical basis and attempts to build a bridge between political science and law. It traces its origins to Immanuel Kant's prediction, that liberal states would someday form a 'free federation' blessed by perpetual peace. The Crown of the United Kingdom, having assumed sovereignty over New Zealand by an act of State or cession, the United Kingdom Parliament never formally renounced power to legislate for New Zealand.
