INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLERE GİRİŞ) - (İNGİLİZCE) Dersi Theories of International Relations soru detayı:
SORU:
What is distinctive about the English School approach to international relations?
CEVAP:
Within the English School, there are two distinct accounts; these explain the actions and the aims of international society quite differently. The first is the pluralist account: it stresses the conduct of states within a condition of anarchy, yet it emphasizes that states, despite self-interest and egoism, do cooperate. It views a world with minimalist rules and focuses on protecting national sovereignty and on creating and maintaining world order. War is limited but not banned; instead, it is used to resist changes to the balance of power and to address violence against international society.
The second interpretation is the solidarist one: this can include a variety of theories assumptions and terms. Solidarists usually emphasize relationships between world society and international society; they tend toward the liberal approaches of International Relations. This is because the focus has been on the individuals inside the state as they impact the conduct of the society of states. Solidarists have included human rights, individual security, and peace as norms intensive foundations of international society. Some critical theorists have adopted the solidarist interpretation of international society so that the state still has theoretical presence and value, but they also wish to include human, global and related concerns in their analyses. They want to examine global communications and interaction. They tend to use the word “society” to separate their work from state-centered models.