Theorıes Of Internatıonal Relatıons Iı Deneme Sınavı Sorusu #965183

How are sovereign nation-states regarded in poststructuralist approach?


Subjects in process

Natural and necessity

A priory

Pre-given subjects

Evil


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In the traditional approach, state is considered as natural and necessary. Though poststructuralists oppose to this idea strictly and focus on the creation of state. For it does not exist a priori, according to poststructuralist thinking. As expressed by Cynthia Weber, the sovereign state shouldnot be understood as it was a priori presence; as opposed to traditional belief, the state is an ‘ontological effect of practices which are performatively enacted’. In other words, ‘sovereign nation-states are not pre-given subjects but subjects in process”. There is no existence of subject/state prior to the political practice. Sovereign states are continuously rebuilt through historical and political practices. It acquires an identity hereby with these actions. More clearly the state’s existence/identity is an effect of performativity that is constructed with discursive practise about foreign and domestic policies, security and defence strategies, or being a member of any international organization. 

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