Transformations of International Relations Analysis in the Era of Regions: Theoretical Model of Regional-Level Power Asymmetry Cover Image

Tarptautinių Santykių Analizės Virsmai Regionų Iškilimo Epochoje: Regioninio Lygmens Galios Asimetrijos Teorinis Modelis
Transformations of International Relations Analysis in the Era of Regions: Theoretical Model of Regional-Level Power Asymmetry

Author(s): Konstantinas Andrijauskas
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, International relations/trade, Phenomenology
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: international relations; analytic eclecticism; power asymmetry; Mearsheimer; Prys;

Summary/Abstract: This article briefly presents a novel concept of regional-level power asymmetry. The concept has been designed to explain a specific phenomenon of contemporary international relations – interaction among powerful states under the circumstances of growing importance ascribed to regions. This innovation follows the so-called analytically eclectic research strategy. The strategy is is built upon the main insights of all the principal international relations paradigms (realism, liberalism, and constructivism) with a special emphasis provided for the unifying regional approach. The concept of regional-level power asymmetry not only allows the development of an explicit measurement tool, but it also suggests the guidelines for a broader middle-range theory which could be applied in future empirical research.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 76
  • Page Range: 206-216
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Lithuanian