IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND SOCIOLOGICAL (MIS)UNDERSTANDINGS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. THE CASE OF ‘TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITY’
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeuropaea.2017.3.11Keywords:
Transatlantic community, Sociology of International Relations, community, ideology, Transantlanticism, political discourseAbstract
The article investigates the various formulas and constructions expressing and contributing to the evolution of Transatlantic community as regional transcontinental set of relationships; political and discursive construction of shared principles, values, and strategies; and social/sociological reality. The suggested analysis provides a critical reappraisal of some of its fundamental elements of definition, ideology, political structure and social-historical complexity, while attempting to contrast between the systemic and intrasystemic views of community. The interpretation reveals the necessity to ask ourselves whether there exist something like a Transatlantic community that can be defined in sociological sense, and, secondly, to question the uses and limits of a sociology of international relations as sociology of transatlantic community. The article concludes on some mutations at the level of sociological epistemology, that would ultimately reposition a legitimate focus on Transatlantic community, beyond its critical histories, supra-political reality, restrictive policies, and Manichaean ideology.
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