title: Poly-participant and multidimensional world: On the way to a new theory of international relations
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metadata.value: Boldyrev, Vitalii E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T11:35:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T11:35:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Boldyrev V. E. Poly-participant and multidimensional world: On the way to a new theory of international relations. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2020, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 507–526.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2020.406
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/24313
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the early 21st century several conditions favorable for a new theory of international relations
  have been formed in Russia. New trends in interstate relations have clearly been displayed
  and Russian foreign policy needs to update its theoretical and conceptual foundations. A new
  philosophical basis has been formed as Russian IR theory is in crisis. To overcome the crisis,
  the framework of a new IR theory is suggested. It rests on existing theories and concepts that
  satisfy the principles of post-non-classical philosophy of science, the concept of Russian foreign
  policy, the fact that contemporary world events cannot be explained using the previously
  created concepts, and interdisciplinarity which does not lead to the erosion of the language of
  science in regard to IR. These sources made it possible to identify a number of fundamental
  provisions for the new IR theory: the interpretation of chaos as an order with unknown laws,
  recognition of each state as a self-sufficient participant in international relations, multivariativity
  of foreign policies, and the understanding of the world as a non-polar system. On their
  basis, a framework was developed for the theory of a poly-participant and multidimensional
  world where the main elements are states (participants) and non-state actors. According to
  the theory, the world has several dimensions: space, dynamical time, structural time, a set
  of subsystems (functional spheres), level, and control. Balance is ensured by the balance of
  foreign policies and reactions to them, which are determined by the interests of states, the
  influence and power of states in certain regions or functional fields. This sets the curvature
  of the world, which makes it change constantly. In the event of imbalance or a weakening of
  control, a vacuum appears and it provokes the development of uncontrolled processes. Such a
  complex structure of the modern world allows us to characterize it as a network that defines
  contemporary international relations as relational.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: IR theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: space
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: time
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: system
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: level
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: control
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: chaos
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interdisciplinarity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: international relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: foreign policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Poly-participant and multidimensional world: On the way to a new theory of international relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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