By Vendulka Kubalkova
Explores the appliance of constructivist concept to diplomacy. The textual content examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical examine, targeting a few of the key problems with modern overseas politics: ethnic and nationwide identification; gender; and political financial system.
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The Overlooked Clue? Carr agreeswith Lord Acton, who said that "few discoveriesare more irritating than thosewhich exposethe pedigreeof ideas" (Carr 1962, 71). But there is, in my view, a much less sophisticated,much simpler reading of Carr, which to a considerable extent reconcilesthe seemingcontradictionof Carr's Twenty Years' Crisis. In formal logic, A and non-A cannotbe true at the sametime. Therefore,a realist could not at the sametime be an antirealistor an idealist. However, there is a form of thought called dialectics and in dialectical logic a realist could be a nonrealist.
Dialecticiansare by definition holistic in their approach,arguing that eventscannotbe tom out of context. Dialecticiansneverseecauseand effect as isolated, but perceivereciprocal causalitiesin which both events and processesexert influence and are influenced by each other. In other words, dialecticiansbelievethat eachpart influencesthe whole just as much as the whole influenceseach individual part. Dialecticianssee things and processesin a stateof constantflux andchange. Dialecticiansthink in terms of relatedpairs of concepts;let us say A and B, where thesepairs are construedin a binary thesis-antithesisway.
All these activities vouchfor our epistemologicalconvictions. Methodologicallyspeaking,this is science,consistingof betterand betterexplanationsfor what we observe,buttressedby more andbetterdata. I observethe fire at a specifiabledistance,and my report of fire will affect the fire in a way that I or anotherobservercan also, in principle, specify: for example, we all put the fire out. If anyonewere to raise questionsabout my assumptions, then my belief that I can speaktruly has becomea matter of epistemology.