Трансформація зовнішньої політики держав у світлі соціального конструктивізму

dc.contributor.authorШаповалова, О. І.
dc.contributor.authorShapovalova, A. I.
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-18T08:00:53Z
dc.date.available2016-07-18T08:00:53Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractenThe issue of foreign policy transformation evokes significant scientific interest. But at the same time it is so multi-faceted that attempts at its theoretical understanding has been rather sporadic and incomplete. For social constructivism the transformative aspect of international life is a natural object of analysis since the construction of social phenomena is, in fact, a primary and principal way of transforming international realities. Although, this aspect remains insufficiently covered in the existing literature due to two main setbacks, namely, asserting secondary and reactive nature of ideational changes in foreign policy which, according to prevailing idea, may occur only in response to certain objective in material or institutional circumstances. In order to properly comprehend the mechanism of ideational changes we should first get detached from the view that practical material shifts are a basic starting point for any transformational processes in state’s foreign policy. Instead, we should encompass into our perspective ideational changes not provoked by exogenous material factors but initiated by actors themselves and aimed at programming international environment and not only reacting to its input. In that case the research task will consist in revealing the ways of transformation of social meanings and structures thereof that constitute state’s foreign policy identity and motivation. Transformation of social meanings cannot be confined to their loss of relevance for actors. Ideational changes take place not only because actors renounce certain ideas. Social structures, including foreign policy identity and motivation, often exist in the form of multi-level hierarchical constructions within which the role of particular ideas may be transferred from one level to another. Besides, social structures may be imbued with different meanings or associated with different practices that also constitutes important changes though less tangible than those spurred by evident external crisis. The most significant in this sense is the change of ontological quality of those social meanings – from purely casual or instrumental preferences to constitutive identification features that are perceived as given and require persistent reproduction, and vice versa. Actually, what is in focus is the possibility of two-way transition from the realm of the logic of consequences to the realm of the logic of appropriateness. In the first case we are dealing with the process of social construction exemplified by objectification and internalization, in the second with the process of deconstruction by means of problematization and externalization of valid social meanings. Since these processes run in highly competitive public space, the most influential factor for them is the availability of alternative versions for the social meanings in question and for practices associated with them. But the mere presence of an alternative discourse disputing a stable social meaning does not lead to automatic changes in the foreign policy complex. A challenge emanating from articulating and asserting alternative meanings may be neutralized through discursive strategies that downgrade these alternatives or minimize their discrepancy with the existing social structure or incorporating them to it. In the last two cases actors may initiate certain changes correcting the existing structures themselves. It means that alongside crisis-driven frustrational changes aimed at dismantling the existing social structures there may occur also changes of more adaptive modificative character whose task lies in adjustment of the existing structures for the sake of their stabilization and preservation of their validity. Adaptive changes may envisage partial revision of deconstruction of the existing social meanings and practices associated thereof while general ideational structure defining actor’s identity or motivation is not dismantled but is getting reinvigorated and reinforced. Since most states and decision-making elites are not interested in eliminating own subjectivity and seek to sustain continuity of their identity, the majority of foreign policy changes tend to be of adaptive and not frustrational character. Although, sometimes the cumulative effect of such adaptive changes may lead to profound transformation of state’s foreign policy. Foreign policy transformation is not a purely ‘introvert’ proves proceeding exclusively within state’s domestic social context. Construction and deconstruction of international system’s social structure inevitably entails shifts in state’s foreign policy structure because it requires fixation and reproduction in its discourse and behaviour. Plurality of social meanings in international and domestic social contexts allows the ruling class to conduct foreign policy transformations in a way that conforms to exogenous and endogenous challenges while preserving coherence of the own identity and motivation.uk
dc.description.abstractruВ статье рассматривается проблема трансформации внешней политики государств сквозь призму социального конструктивизма. На основе базовых положений данной парадигмы формулируется представление об этом процессе как о перманентной динамике конструирования и деконструкции акторами социальных значений и ассоциированных с ними практик, выделяется адаптивный и фрустрационный характер внешнеполитических изменений и анализируется взаимосвязь трансформационных процессов во внешнеполитическом комплексе государства и в структуре международной системы.uk
dc.description.abstractukУ статті розглядається проблема трансформації зовнішньої політики держав крізь призму соціального конструктивізму. На основі базових положень цієї парадигми формулюється уявлення про цей процес як перманентну динаміку конструювання та деконструкції акторами соціальних значень та асоційованих з ними практик, виокремлюється адаптивний та фрустраційних характер зовнішньополітичних змін та аналізується взаємозв’язок трансформаційних процесів у зовнішньополітичному комплексі держави та у структурі міжнародної системи.uk
dc.format.pagerangeС. 149-155uk
dc.identifier.citationШаповалова О. І. Трансформація зовнішньої політики держав у світлі соціального конструктивізму / Шаповалова О. І. // Вісник НТУУ «КПІ». Політологія. Соціологія. Право : збірник наукових праць. – 2014. – № 2 (22). – С. 149–155. – Бібліогр.: 18 назв.uk
dc.identifier.urihttps://ela.kpi.ua/handle/123456789/17096
dc.language.isoukuk
dc.publisherПолітехнікаuk
dc.publisher.placeКиївuk
dc.source.nameВісник НТУУ «КПІ». Політологія. Соціологія. Право : збірник наукових працьuk
dc.status.pubpublisheduk
dc.subjectзовнішня політикаuk
dc.subjectтрансформаціяuk
dc.subjectсоціальний конструктивізмuk
dc.subjectдеконструкціяuk
dc.subjectадаптивні зміниuk
dc.subjectforeign policyuk
dc.subjecttransformationuk
dc.subjectsocial constructivismuk
dc.subjectdeconstructionuk
dc.subjectadaptive changesuk
dc.subjectвнешняя политикаuk
dc.subjectтрансформацияuk
dc.subjectсоциальный конструктивизмuk
dc.subjectдеконструкцияuk
dc.subjectадаптивные измененияuk
dc.subject.udc327uk
dc.titleТрансформація зовнішньої політики держав у світлі соціального конструктивізмуuk
dc.title.alternativeForeign policy transformation in the view of social constructivismuk
dc.typeArticleuk
thesis.degree.levelmasteruk

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