BETWEEN INVOLVED POWER AND ACTUAL HUMANITY: A TYPOLOGY OF THE DIPLOMACY OF THE WESTERN UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-29
Author(s):  
I. S. Monolatii
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
The State

The features of foreign policy activity of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (WUPR) are investigated in the article. On the basis of modern approaches in the field of international relations theory, 10 types of diplomacy of this Ukrainian state in 1918-1923 were investigated: “quiet” & “protest” diplomacy); “group diplomacy” & “nichte diplomacy”; “diasporic diplomacy” & “multicultural diplomacy”; “enterprises diplomacy” & “regulatory diplomacy”; “summit diplomacy” & “cyber diplomacy”. It is concluded that, although the fundamental principle of unification with Ukraine was taken as the basis of WUPR international legal relations, the problem of powerlessness of diplomacy of this Ukrainian state was the desire of middle and lower level diplomats who confused party interests with national pseudo-actors of policy, that would embody the international prestige of the state.

Realist Constructivism: An Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
J. Samuel Barkin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
General Relationship ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Agency

This chapter looks at the general relationship between realism and constructivism in international relations theory. It introduces both approaches, and argues that the distinctions often drawn between them, such as those between materialism and idealism and between logics of consequences and appropriateness, do not in fact make them incompatible. It suggests that areas of fruitful overlap between realism and constructivism are to be found in the study of the institution of the state and of individual agency in foreign policy. The chapter also lays out the plan of the book, and briefly introduces the other chapters.

Integrating anxiety into international relations theory: Hobbes, existentialism, and ontological security

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahar Rumelili
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Existentialist Philosophy

This article draws on Hobbes and existentialist philosophy to contend that anxiety needs to be integrated into international relations (IR) theory as a constitutive condition, and proposes theoretical avenues for doing so. While IR scholars routinely base their assumptions regarding the centrality of fear and self-help behavior on the Hobbesian state of nature, they overlook the Hobbesian emphasis on anxiety as the human condition that gives rise to the state of nature. The first section of the article turns to existentialist philosophy to explicate anxiety's relation to fear, multiple forms, and link to agency. The second section draws on some recent interpretations to outline the role that anxiety plays in Hobbesian thought. Finally, I argue that an ontological security (OS) perspective that is enriched by insights from existentialism provides the most appropriate theoretical venue for integrating anxiety into IR theory and discuss the contributions of this approach to OS studies and IR theory.

Beyond the Great Divide: globalization and the theory of international relations

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN CLARK
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
External Environment ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
State Action ◽  
Theoretical Scheme ◽  
General Significance ◽  
External Forces

This article assesses the general significance for International Relations theory of the literature on globalization. It argues that globalization is a pervasively unsettling process which needs to be explained not only as an issue in its own right but for the insight which it affords into cognate areas of theory. In short, it advances an analytical model whereby globalization itself can be understood and utilizes this as a theoretical scheme that may be applied more generally. The predominant conceptualization of the globalization issue within International Relations has been the debate between the proponents of state redundancy and the champions of continuing state potency. In turn, these arguments rest upon an image of state capacities being eroded by external forces, or alternatively of external forces being generated by state action. In either case, there is the assumed duality of the state(s) set off from, and ranged against, a seemingly external environment. Instead, this article argues that the state occupies a middle ground between the internal and external and is itself both shaped by and formative of the process of globalization.

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