flow in the study of the question of international relations today are many.This diversity is due to the different criteria used by certain authors.
Some researchers, on the basis of geographical features, isolated Anglo-Saxon, Chinese and Soviet theoretical positions.Other authors are based on the degree of generality of existing concepts, highlighting, for example, private methods and hypotheses, explicative position (for example, the philosophy of history and political realism), the Marxist-Leninist typology.
however, stand and basic theories of international relations.These include, in particular, include:
- political idealism.The theory of international relations has ideological and theoretical bases.They act as liberalism, pacifism and utopian socialism of the 19th century.The basic idea of the theory of international relations is the conviction of the need to complete all the world's wars and armed conflicts by means of democratization and legal settlement, spreading the standards of justice and morality.One priority is the formation of the concept of collective security on the basis of voluntary disarmament, and mutual non-use of war as a foreign policy tool.
- Political realism.The theory of international relations based on the fact that the only way to keep the peace is to establish a certain balance of power (power) on the world stage as a result of the desire of every power to satisfy its national interests.
- political modernism.The theory of international relations reflects a commitment to using rigorous scientific procedures and methods, interdisciplinary approach, increasing the number of empirical, verifiable data.
- Transnatsionalisticheskaya theory of international relations is a combination of several concepts.It was launched by supporters of the general idea of the disparity of political realism and his usual paradigm of the main trends and the nature of interstate cooperation.In their view, international relations affect not only the state but also businesses, individuals, organizations, and other non-governmental associations.This theory has contributed to the realization of some new phenomena in international interactions.Due to changes in the technology of transport and communications, transforming the situation on foreign markets, as well as an increase in the number and value of transnational corporations there are new trends.By predominant ones include:
- advancing the development of world production growth of trade in the world;
- the development of modernization, urbanization, means of communication;
- an increase in the international value of private actors and small countries;
- reduction of the large capacity of States to control the natural state.
As a result of synthesis serves to increase the interdependence of the world with a relative reduction of the role of power in international relations.
5. Neo-Marxism.This is considered to be within the same non-uniform as transnationalism.The concept is the idea of the integrity of the community and some utopian when assessing its future.Based on some of the traditional theses of classical Marxism, neo-Marxists space interstate interactions are in the form of global empire.Its periphery (colonial countries) at the same time experiencing the oppression of the center even after gaining political independence.This, in turn, manifested in the uneven development and inequality in economic exchanges.
