THEORETICAL FILTER RELEVANCE IN ASSESSING THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT
THEORETICAL FILTER RELEVANCE IN ASSESSING THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT

Author(s): Ioana LEUCEA
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: international system; theoretical filter; theorization; interpretative grid;
Summary/Abstract: The article intends to uphold the idea that the assessment of the international security environment represents a very difficult and complicated task similar to the academic endeavor to conceptualize the international/global system, theoretical instruments being necessary to be developed in approaching the subject. Theoreticians of the world systems apprehend that,just like the systemic perspective is created by the analyst, the same way the assessment of the international security environment depends on an implicit or explicit assumed theoretical filter by the analyst or the security community.Just as theoreticians of the international systems notice that the systemic perspective is firstly and inevitably a theoretical artifact, the article aims to point out a series of conceptualizations of the international systems that can be used as theoretical grids in the assessment of the international security environment

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