What is human security? How is it different from the concept of national security? Human security is an emerging paradigm for understanding global vulnerabilities whose proponents challenge the traditional notion of national security by arguing that the proper referent for security should be the individual rather than the state. Human security holds that a people-centered [...]
‘International Relations’ 카테고리의 보관물
‘Contemporary globalization erodes nation-state sovereignty but does not undermine nationalism.’ Discuss. In the course of contemporary globalization, supreme sovereignty of the nation-state as a legacy of the Westphalian system is definitely being challenged, but it is quite different with nationalism since it is not necessarily combined with statism. A nation, as most commonly defined, is [...]
What assumptions about international politics are shared by neo-liberals and neo-realists? What are the significant differences between these two theories? In the International Relations mainstream debate between neo-liberals and neo-realists, many of their key assumptions in epistemological term overlap with each others’ including assumptions about anarchy and the role of the state, but the neos [...]
Which International Relations theory best explains East Asian international relations today? In analyzing contemporary international relations of North East Asia, neo-realism, neo-liberalism, and constructivism all provide respectively important insights; but in ‘explaining’ the situation, neo-realism is relatively the most appropriate one. In the view of neo-realism or structural realism, the international relations are conformed to [...]
