Political Science Workshop: The Grand Split? How The World is Dividing
The condition of world politics has reached the point of a severe crisis. The system of global governance and the international order it was based on is shaking. Some would see this as a crisis of legitimacy, others as an institutional breakdown, and some as a crisis of the western hegemonic rule-based order established after World War Two.
The international system is reconfiguring, and it is likely that more challenges and conflicts are coming. The present moment is an ideal time to rethink and reconceptualize our approaches to the new environment of international relations. In this regard, we would like to create space for the Political Science faculty and MA/PhD students (and invited guests) in the form of a one-day informal workshop to share their respective views.
Panel 1: What is new in our perceptions of world politics?
Piotr Dutkiewicz
The Split: Re-defining the basics
My goal is to sketch a complex process of what I call the Grant Split in which some of the so called “rest” questioned the rule by the “west” moving from competition to confrontation and then from confrontation to an open conflict. Countries of the “South” more openly deny the universalization of the western norms, institutions, principles, and values. Their defiance – until recently – mostly presented in civilizational/cultural terms has moved by now to re-define key IR concepts such – for instance – as sovereignty , security and national interests. In many ways such approach directly clashes with western supported “norm-based order”.
