Suchergebnisse

This article will provide an answer to a question: how to understand international relations as a discipline independent and autonomous from the study of history, demography, international law and other disciplines. Starting from the disciplinary need to understand the evolution of the modern state system, the discipline consolidated itself by creating a subject-matter solidified by a distinct set of theories, techniques and methods. This article will, therefore, reflect on international relations, its subject-matter, theories and methods. Adapted from the source document.

This article focuses on the normative implications International Relations Theories have on reality. The objective is to produce inferences about the impacts these theories could provoke on states' behavior. Firstly, this article shows the divide between two set of theories. Some conceive the possibility that a group of states renounces the use of violence among each other. Other perspective consider that the very essence of international relations is the state of war amongst everyone, which makes perpetual peace unachievable. Secondly, this study presents the analytical and prescriptive differences between the theories that reckon the possibility of peace. Adapted from the source document.

The author discusses the progressive transformation of the cyberspace into one more battleground for international conflicts. The article begins with an analysis of the concept of cyber war, and a discussion about the difficulties of establishing a rigorous conceptualisation within the framework of the Law of Armed Conflict/International Humanitarian Law. Then, the capabilities and vulnerabilities of great powers are also object of analysis, and the complex role of non-state actors in cyber conflicts. The article ends with a discussion about the difficulty of assessing the economic impact of cyber attacks. Adapted from the source document.

In Paix et guerre entre les nations Raymond Aron argues that the force relation configuration and the international system nature -- homogeneous or heterogeneous -- guide the international relations. Aron presents a causality relation between the system heterogeneity and the world wars, and proposes, by contrast, that distinct principles of legitimacy generate the heterogeneity of the system creating a tension in the international system, demanding the moral unity and avoiding the international system development. Adapted from the source document.

The division found between the international and domestic structures in the definition of the states' international conduct has marked a significant part of the debate on international relations theory. Realism has been the target of criticism on the part of other approaches that tend to associate Realism with perspectives that are based essentially on the international sphere, in detriment of the domestic structure. New Realist perspectives, ranging from Statism to Structural Realism and Neoclassical Realism strive to oppose it, by attempting to extend to the domestic sphere the normative and empirical principles of the Classical Realism and the Neorealism. Adapted from the source document.

The contribution of Hugo Grotius to international relations theory is especially relevant given the growth of contemporary global interdependence. Grotius has paved the way to a more elaborate vision of international politics. In particular, he points to the existence of an open international society -- a more dense concept than the mere interstate system -- in which a variety of interests and actors coexist. He is the precursor of a complex liberal formulation -- where interests are tantamount -- that brings up distributive outcomes as a result of reciprocal costs. Adapted from the source document.