Preview

Political science

Advanced search

Post-westphalian sovereignty in the post-global world

https://doi.org/10.31249/poln/2022.04.06

Abstract

The issue of the major actors of the global political and economic development obviously became the central one in the on-going discourse over the perspective global architecture. One cannot disengage that issue from the problem of the nature of the national sovereignty in the perspective world. It is obvious that the desovereignization of the global processes, gradual stripping of the nation-states from the right for sovereignty as well as dismantlement of the state as the form of society organization are the features of the departed historical period. Despite preservation of a number of globalized systems the world returns to the model of a spatial world that ultimately provides for right of the actor for sovereignty. That transformation is stimulated by the trend for geo-economic regionalization that at this point included the military political instruments of competition. That however does not mean that sovereignty as a phenomenon, notion as well as a political practice could be further interpreted within the framework of Westphalian system. Nation states that obviously remain vehicles for national sovereignty no longer enjoy ultimate monopoly exploiting sovereignty as an operational concept. The very notion of sovereignty due to the socio-economic as well as technological transformations of past decades becomes much more complex while merging spatial and trans-spatial components especially considering the fact that globalized segments of the international architecture will remain in place for the foreseeable future despite the geo-economic and geopolitical regionalization. Authors make the conclusion that the return to the «classic» purely spatial basis of the Westphalian system is no longer possible. While generalizing the trends that emerged during the initial phase of the on-going de-globalization try to formulate the major vectors of transformation of the operational substance of sovereignty and the specifics of its manifestation in specific political and geographical environments. The key element of the article is the attempt to outline the issues that are critical for further exploration and analysis of the transformation of the sovereignty. Authors claim that in contrast to current situation when the cornerstone of the sovereignty is the spatial security first of all in the military dimension the future world that would reside upon the principles of civilizational disengagement will demand a more robust approach to the issues of social and socio-cultural environment protection including those that could provide for the limitation of the level of intrusiveness of the globalized informational society into national informational environment.

About the Authors

D. G. Evstafiev
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
Russian Federation

Moscow



N. M. Meghevich
Mezhevich Nikolai, Institute of Europe of Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation

Moscow



References

1. Бордачев Т.В. Пространство без границ: Россия и ее соседи. - М.: Международный дискуссионный клуб "Валдай", 2021. - 32 c.

2. Громыко А.А. Вперёд в прошлое? // Современная Европа. - 2015. - № 1. - С. 5-10. EDN: TKAENN

3. Евстафьев Д.Г., Цыганова Л.А. Социокультурные отношения и коммуникации в постпандемическом мире: глобальный разворот или ситуативный кризис постмодерна // Общественные науки и современность. - 2021. - № 5. - С. 18-29. -. DOI: 10.31857/S086904990017291-2 EDN: JQIIUW

4. Ергин Д. Новая карта мира: Энергетические ресурсы, меняющийся климат и столкновение наций / пер. с англ. - М.: Интеллектуальная литература, 2021. -444 с.

5. Исаев И.А., Корнев А.В., Липень С.В. Иерархия и сети. Власть и закон. - М.: Проспект, 2022. - 200 с.

6. Кастельс М. Власть коммуникации / пер. с англ. под науч. ред. А.И. Черных - М.: Издательский дом Вышей школы экономики, 2016. - 564 с.

7. Киссинджер Г. Мировой порядок / пер. с англ. - М.: Издательство АСТ, 2017. -512 с.

8. Куприянов А.В. "Вестфальский миф" и "вестфальский" суверенитет. Анализ и прогноз // Журнал ИМЭМО РАН. - 2019. - № 4. - С. 11-23. -. DOI: 10.20542/AFIJ-2019-4-11-23 EDN: MTTOEP

9. Манаков А.Г. "Новая экономическая география" и оценка ее применимости в России // Вестник Псковского государственного университета. Серия: Естественные и физико-математические науки. - 2012. - № 1. - С. 84-90. EDN: QCIMCJ

10. Можегов В. Мировая гражданская война. - М.: Родина, 2021. - 224 с.

11. Мелешкина Е.Ю., Кудряшова И.В. После империй: можно ли перековать мечи на орала? // Политическая наука. - 2022. - № 1. - С. 14-51. - http://www. DOI: 10.31249/poln/2022.01.01 EDN: GFDURA

12. Окунев И.Ю. География международных отношений: структура и элементы мирового политического пространства // Вестник Пермского университета. Политология. - 2019. - Т. 13, № 3. - С. 5-16. -. DOI: 10.17072/2218-1067-2019-3-5-16 EDN: RVHPES

13. Пейн Л. Море и цивилизация. Мировая в история в свете развития мореходства / пер. с англ. - Москва: АСТ, 2017. - 832 с.

14. Смирнягин Л.В. Безграничное районирование и плавающие признаки как средство познания географической реальности // IX Сократические чтения. Проблемы географической реальности. - М.: Эслан, 2012. - P. 191-200. - Режим доступа: http://www.ecoross.ru/files/books2012/IX%20Sokr.%20cht.,%202012.pdf (дата посещения: 21.06.2022). EDN: ZCGKOR

15. Фукуяма Ф. Угасание государственного порядка / пер. с англ. - М.: АСТ, 2017. -704 с.

16. Энгельс Ф. Анти-Дюринг. Переворот в науке, произведенный господином Евгением Дюрингом / пер. с нем. Издание 2 е. - М.: ЛЕНАНД, 2016. - 504 с.

17. Buhaug H., Gleditsch N.P. The Death of distance? The globalization of armed conflict. In: Kahler M., Walter B. (eds). Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization. New York: Cambridge university press, 2006, P. 187-216.

18. Giddens A. Runaway world: how globalization is reshaping our lives. New York: Routledge, 2003, 104 p.

19. Featherstone M., Lash S., Robertson R. (eds). Global modernities. London: SAGE Publication, 1995, 292 p. DOI: 10.4135/9781446250563

20. Gromyko A. Editorial. Forward to the past? Contemporary Europe. 2015, N 1, P. 5-10. EDN: TKAENN

21. Krugman P., Venables A. Globalization and the inequality of nations. The quarterly journal of economics. 1995, Vol. 110, N 4, P. 857-880. DOI: 10.2307/2946642 EDN: CDHRZZ

22. Pomfret R. Regionalism' and the global trade system. The World economy. 2021, Vol. 44, N 9, P. 2496-251421. DOI: 10.1111/twec.13155

23. Stoessinger J. The might of nations. World politics in our time. New York: Random House, 1961, 136 p.


Review

Views: 135


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.


ISSN 1998-1775 (Print)