Global Uncertainty and International Anarchy: Non-Western and Transcultural Perspectives
| Název práce v češtině: | Globální nejistota a mezinárodní anarchie: nezápadní a transkulturní perspektivy |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | Global Uncertainty and International Anarchy: Non-Western and Transcultural Perspectives |
| Klíčová slova: | international relations, world order, global uncertainty, international anarchy, Confucian political tradition, transcultural theory |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | international relations, world order, global uncertainty, international anarchy, Confucian political tradition, transcultural theory |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2023/2024 |
| Typ práce: | diplomová práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Katedra politologie (23-KP) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | Janusz Salamon, Ph.D. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem |
| Datum přihlášení: | 21.06.2024 |
| Datum zadání: | 21.06.2024 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 27.01.2025 09:00 |
| Místo konání obhajoby: | Areál Jinonice, C520, 520, seminární místnost IPS |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 05.01.2025 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 27.01.2025 |
| Oponenti: | Mgr. Jakub Franěk, Ph.D. |
| Zásady pro vypracování |
| Research Question(s) and Topic characteristics:
The contemporary global landscape is characterized by many uncertainties, ranging from economic volatility and political instability to environmental crises and technological disruptions. These uncertainties, especially the latter ones, pose significant and unprecedented challenges to the existing international order, generally described as an anarchical system where sovereign states operate without a central authority. While providing states with autonomy and a sense of self-determination, this inherent anarchy where states prioritize their security and interests often results in competition and conflict, as a first glance at the international arena would confirm. Thus, the increasing unpredictability and interconnectedness of global issues necessitate a reevaluation of this international system, an overcoming of itself and its defining traits that make it unable to confront the exceptionality of our current conjuncture. This work, after insisting on the novelty and threat distinction that characterizes today’s global uncertainty, will focus on two major theories that have dominated the international order discourse: realism and liberalism. These Western-based bodies of thought will be deemed unsuitable not only in the analysis and diagnosis of our time but also in the attempt of finding proper solutions to global issues. Therefore, what is needed is a different outlook that manages to compel across countries and cultures, a transcultural way of thinking that can challenge dominant attitudes towards global arena and goes beyond the shortcomings of the rules-based international order proposed by Western liberalism to override anarchy. In this sense, now we could pose the research questions that will define this work: (1) What makes our current global moment unique in terms of uncertainty? (2) How does this global uncertainty pose a threat to the current international order dominated by anarchy? (3) What can non-Western communitarian outlooks say about the issue of global anarchy and its overcoming? And finally, (4) could there be a transcultural option able to reconcile differences and shed light into a future of non-anarchic global order? Working hypotheses: 1. There is a growing social phenomenon of global uncertainty of unprecedented characteristics and unique nature in human history. 2. The reasons and the challenges raised by this global uncertainty are related to the globalization process and are likely irreversible by concept. 3. This conjuncture of a new global uncertainty exacerbates the need to move beyond the stage of anarchy that characterizes the international arena. 4. Non-Western communitarianism and transcultural perspective can help provide a new framework for global sovereignty that overcomes international anarchy. Methodology This work will study global uncertainty as an incentive to terminate international anarchy, emphasizing the role of non-Western political philosophies and the need for transcultural perspectives. Key philosophical questions will be addressed, such as how global uncertainty exacerbates the challenges posed by international anarchy and (more importantly) how it can foster its termination, or whether and how non-Western perspectives can become part of a transcultural global order and which traits should characterize it. After stressing the relevance and context of the topic addressed, the work’s methodology will focus on mostly philosophical and theoretical analysis, consisting of conceptual analysis, where notions such as global uncertainty, liberalism, realism or international anarchy will be explored in depth, from their definitions to their interconnections. Therefore, literature review from a variety of sources will be central to the work’s methodology. Besides, within that realm there will also be presentations of philosophical perspectives as well as comparative philosophical analysis, trying to integrate them in the same picture. Finally, a conclusion will summarize the key philosophical insights and arguments developed in the study. This interim conclusion will reflect on the potential of non-Western perspectives to transform the international order, proposing philosophical reforms for the current international relations framework. These proposals will be based on the ethical and philosophical principles derived from the previous parts. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
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| Předběžná náplň práce |
| Outline
1. Introduction 2. The unprecedented moment of global uncertainty 3. Global uncertainty and the fragility of the current international order 4. Non-Western perspectives and international anarchy 5. A transcultural future global sovereignty: unfeasible or inevitable? |
| Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce |
| Outline
1. Introduction 2. The unprecedented moment of global uncertainty 3. Global uncertainty and the fragility of the current international order 4. Non-Western perspectives and international anarchy 5. A transcultural future global sovereignty: unfeasible or inevitable? |