The cognitive warfare in designing the international society (and the security environment)
The cognitive warfare in designing the international society (and the security environment)

Summary/Abstract: The constructivist approach of international relations informs us about the deep structures of the global political organization, which is culture: the intersubjective meanings and perspectives people have in common and share. Our minds, our thoughts, our perceptions are in part the result of specific educational curricula, up to now designed to follow independent national educational programs. The language and the words we use play a very important role in configuring the cultural lens which intermediates our communication with reality, placing us in the middle of things and seldom obscuring the distinction between the subject and the object of our observation. The social construction of reality and a social world of our making are no longer philosophical ideas but the evidence to study. The need to theorize the theorization process, perceived as a base for social constructions, indicates us to question our educated identities and our educated mind frames as scientific objects to study.. ”A world of our making” (Onuf, 1989) means that culture, as an invisible mind frame, should be the object to study in order to better understand and anticipate the systemic challenges and to assess the risks that might arise in the future. McLuhan(1970) once said that culture is our business – war equals education, violence is the quest for identity and having his ideas in mind we intend to discuss the cultural infrastructure we presume is at stake in contemporary systemic cognitive warfare.

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