La imagen imperial del nuevo orden internacional: ¿es esto realismo político?
Palabras clave:
Orden internacional, Estados Unidos, realismo político, teoría relaciones internacionales, unilateralismo, multilateralismoResumen
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, nº. 64
Cuatrimestral (diciembre 2003)
ISSN:1133-6595
Este artículo analiza las diversas imágenes del orden internacional pertenecientes a la teoría realista de las relaciones internacionales, y su relación con las doctrinas neoconservadoras del orden imperial estadounidense. Se trata de responder a la cuestión de si la imagen unipolar-imperial del orden internacional de la actual Administración republicana puede considerarse una forma de realismo político. Tanto los defensores del orden unipolar-imperial como sus detractores adscriben a menudo esta imagen a la tradición del realismo, donde se encuadran otras dos imágenes posteriores al fin de la Guerra Fría: las imágenes geoeconómica y la multipolar. Sin embargo, un análisis de las diversas imágenes revela que las doctrinas neoconservadoras del nuevo orden imperial se apartan considerablemente del realismo en los niveles descriptivo, prescriptivo y predictivo, hasta el punto de resultar incompatibles con aquél. Este estudio concluye que la imagen imperial es una anomalía no sólo respecto al realismo político, sino también respecto a la propia imagen unipolar.
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