El Realismo

From International System to International Society: Structural Realism and Regime Theory Meet the English School Author(s): Barry Buzan Source: International Organization, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 327-352 Published by: The MIT Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2706979 . Accessed: 27/05/2011 11:36
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to systemFrominternational structural society: international meetthe theory realismand regime Englishschool
Buzan Barry

society"to The purposeof thisarticleis to relatetheconceptof "international threebodies together bring One aim is to theory. realismand regime structural British-and to show how American,the otherlargely of theory-twolargely the one another.Anotheraim is to clarify and strengthentheycomplement precision.To do this,I so thatit can be used withgreateranalytical concept for develop the argumentalong three lines. First, I establish definitions society"thatenable a clear boundand "international system" "international ary to be drawn between them. Withoutsuch a boundary,the concept of analysisof to societyis too fuzzy be used eitherforcomparative international of development orinternational systems foranalysisof the historical different society. Second, I open up the question of how any given international societyrelates to world societyand tryto resolve the rather international as literature to whetherthese two ideas are nebulouspositionin the existing realismto Third,I use the logic of structural or complementary antagonistic. can emergeas a naturalproductof the logicofsociety showhow international to based accountto contrast functionally This providesan alternative, anarchy. is work of the English school. The argument that this the largelyhistorical global, account is better suited to analysisof the contemporary functional international societybecause it answers questions about the multicultural, to societythat are difficult deal withif expansionof Europeaninternational It conceived of in termsof historicalcommunity. also societyis primarily ordered society a providesthe tools forconceptualizing complexinternational as lesserdegreesofcommitment one circlesrepresenting in terms concentric of international societyalreadyhas the movesoutwardfrom center.The current and the logic of uneven developmentsuggeststhat future this structure, thispattern. ofdevelopments itwillalso follow

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