The purpose of this thesis is theory development. It begins by evaluating existing explanations of why states undertake humanitarian intervention. Realists argue that states only intervene when their national interests are at stake. Normative scholars argue that states are at times motivated to save foreign citizens. Neither approach adequately accounts for the pattern of post-Cold War state practice. Building from this conclusion, the thesis conducts research based on two propositions derived from an analysis of existing debates: that examining state motive holds promise for elucidating the weaknesses in current approaches and that studying state argumentation can provide insight into state motives. To better investigate state motives, a theoretical framework is developed to explain how motives translate into state decision-making and manifest themselves in state argumentation. By employing process tracing, argumentation analysis, and elite interviews, this framework is applied to three cases: Northern Iraq in 1991, Rwanda in 1994, and East Timor in 1999. Each case study constructs a theoretically informed narrative, assesses debates between states at the United Nations Security Council, and evaluates the consistency between state discourse and state practice. The cases are then used heuristically to identify opportunities for improving existing theory and developing new theory. This yields several conclusions. First, not only do states often possess mixed motives, but the humanitarian impulse also appears in some cases to have been a necessary condition for humanitarian intervention. Second, the norm of humanitarian intervention does not function as a general rule. Rather, it is a cluster of principles derived from just war theory and international law, but also connected to related norms about sovereignty, human rights, and self-determination. Third, state decision-making is a collective process structured by the prevailing post-Cold War institutional and normative context. The thesis concludes by outlining promising avenues of research for better understanding why states respond to some occurrences of mass atrocities and not others.

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / Today, political scientists working with international organizations seek to resolve internal conflicts in Bosnia- Herzegovina, Cyprus, and Kashmir. To solve such crises, political scientists have mostly tried to apply domestic comparative politics approaches. These techniques emphasize agreements among internal actors and have not been successful in most cases. In the case of the Transdniestrian conflict in the Republic of Moldova, mediators have found it difficult to achieve internal agreement because external factors also have played a significant role during the conflict. Therefore, even if an internal agreement is achieved, it will remain fragile due to the vulnerable geographic location of the Republic of Moldova and to the limited state capacity to counter influential external actors. For the purpose of solving the Transdniestrian conflict in the long run, this thesis analyzes the possibilities of creating regional complex interdependence around the Republic of Moldova, which would strengthen an internal agreement to resolve the conflict. Regional complex interdependence inter-connects the countries interested in the region around the Republic of Moldova: Romania, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. This solution presumes external and internal interconnections based on the complex interdependence theory of neo-liberalism. The main potential drawback is that any asymmetrical dependencies in the initial stage of cooperation will imbalance the proposed complex interdependence causing unilateral dependence (most likely on Russia) leading other actors to take countermeasures. In fact, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as a neutral party has been being a legal umbrella for mediation since all parties consider it an appropriate organization for the negotiations. Nevertheless, creating such an arrangement requires an initial role of the United States of America and the European Union to balance Russian influence until the region becomes interdependent. At that moment, the continuation of the Transdniestrian conflict will become irrelevant because the pre-conditions for conflict will be eliminated. / Major, Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Moldova

[pt] O objetivo central desta dissertação é fazer uma análise discursiva pós-colonial sobre o desenvolvimento e o panorama atual da área de Relações Internacionais no Brasil, na China e na Índia. Procura-se analisar o entrelaçamento destas experiências com a experiência dominante na área (a estadunidense), com o intuito de expor a participação subordinada destes locais (de enunciação) na construção da área globalmente. Para tal, utiliza-se, principalmente, o discurso pós-colonial de Homi Bhabha e autores que interpretam sua obra, como Ilan Kapoor, James Ferguson e Marta Moreno. Através de uma leitura baseada nestes autores, busca-se interpretar a história e os saberes destes locais para além de seu entendimento como cópia inautêntica da experiência estadunidense ou como tentativa frustrada de criação completamente inovadora. Almeja-se, pelo contrário, ressaltar como as histórias e os saberes da área pelo globo são construídos a partir de relacionamentos históricos; os quais, por serem assimétricos, omitem e menosprezam a participação e a contribuição da produção em RI pelo globo. O método de análise discursiva desta dissertação tem como base metodologias de cunho pós-estruturalista e pós-colonial, a saber: a justaposição de narrativas e a ênfase nos conhecimentos subjugados. Esta análise se deu através da revisão de material escrito (artigos de revistas acadêmicas, livros especializados ou coletâneas acadêmicas) que aborda o desenvolvimento e o panorama atual da área de RI de Brasil, China e Índia. Buscase, assim, contribuir com a subversão da Historiografia Tradicional da área de RI através da escavação de outras historiografias e outros saberes que se entrelaçam na construção da área globalmente. / [en] The main goal of this dissertation is to perform a postcolonial discursive analysis on the development and current overview of the area of International Relations in Brazil, China and India. It seeks to analyze the relationship of these experiences with the worldwide dominant experience (that of the U.S.A.), in order to expose the subordinated participation of these (enunciative) places in the construction of the area globally. In order to do so, it is used, mainly, the postcolonial discourse of Homi Bhabha and authors who interpret his work, such as Ilan Kapoor, James Ferguson and Marta Moreno. Through a reading based on these authors, it is sought to interpret the history and the knowledge of these places beyond their understanding as inauthentic copy of the American experience or as a frustrated attempt of a complete innovation. It is aimed, on the contrary, to highlight how the stories and knowledge of the area across the globe are constructed by historical relationships; which, for being asymmetric, omit and despise the participation and contribution of IR production across the globe. The method of discursive analysis of this dissertation is based on poststructuralist and postcolonial methodologies, namely: the juxtaposition of narratives and the emphasis on subjugated knowledge. This analysis has been done by reviewing written material (articles from academic journals, specialized academic books or academic collections) that addresses the development and current situation of the IR area of Brazil, China and India. The aim is, thus, to contribute to the subversion of IR traditional historiography by excavating other historiographies and other knowledge that intertwine in the construction area globally.

Esta dissertação analisa, conceitual e metodologicamente, a questão dos ganhos relativos na teoria de Relações Internacionais. A análise passa pelo exame da literatura relevante, e pela apreciação da utilização que essa literatura faz do ferramental de teoria dos jogos. Identifica-se um problema metodológico ligado à escolha das premissas comportamentais dos jogadores. Na tentativa de contribuir para remediar essa lacuna, é elaborado um conceito, chamado de preço da cooperação, para explicar como varia a predileção por ganhos absolutos ou relativos por parte dos estados (jogadores). A análise sugere que a sensibilidade à distribuição de ganhos gerada pela preocupação dos estados com segurança é apenas uma das fontes dessa sensibilidade. De modo que os efeitos do problema dos ganhos relativos sobre a cooperação internacional devem ser pensados e investigados levando-se em conta um conjunto de fatores causadores de problemas de ganhos relativos, com destaque para os conflitos distributivos inerentes às barganhas. / This dissertation analyses the problem of relative gains in International Relations theory, both from a conceptual and a methodological point of view. The research examines the relevant literature and investigates how it uses the tools provided by game theory. The research focus on the problem of choosing the assumptions pertaining to the behavior of players, and proposes the concept of \"price of cooperation\" to explain the variation in players\' sensibility to relative gains. This study suggests that the concern with security is only one of many sources of sensibility to relative gains. As such, the effects of the relative gains problem upon international cooperation should be investigated taking into account the various factors that may increase preference for relative gains, with special attention to bargainings inherent distributive conflicts.

This thesis is an original contribution to critical international relations theory. Responding to Hartmut Behr's call for the development of more universalistic trajectories of ontological inquiry for contemporary (global) politics and ethics, our original contribution is to establish a 'critical' approach to international theory on a more universalistic meta-theoretical foundation. Proceeding from a philosophical analysis of 'ontological' foundations in influential normative, meta-theoretical, and critical approaches to international theory, we argue for a shift from international theory’s reliance on a shallow ontology of 'things that exist' to a fuller ontology of being, and of human being in particular. After identifying with the left-Hegelian tradition of thought, and establishing that the most compelling and promising advocate of a 'critical' approach to international theory, that of Andrew Linklater, rests on a limited conception of human existence and a thin understanding of human freedom, we explore the implications of conceptions of human being and freedom in the work of Martin Heidegger and Georg W. F. Hegel for critical international theory. Offering an epistemological defence of our universalism through Hegel's phenomenological constructivist approach to knowledge, then demonstrating how this allows us to transcend the schism between foundationalist and anti-foundationalist approaches to normative theory, we premise our own emancipatory cosmopolitanism on a commitment to the human being conceived as 'singularity' rather than subject. Proceeding from a discussion of 'what it means to be' a free human being according to Heidegger and Hegel, we then foreground two aspects of human freedom that have hitherto been obscured in critical international theory and develop a praxeological emancipatory cosmopolitanism on this basis. Rather than rejecting Linklater's emancipatory cosmopolitanism, we call for its 'overcoming,' and demonstrate ways that our meta-theoretical argument can effect international practice by offering 'love' as a guide for ethical and emancipatory praxis and an evaluative tool for critical social theory.

[pt] A tese aborda a teoria construtivista de Alexander Wendt e o debate teórico em torno da guerra fria, particularmente de seu final, enfatizando o caráter social do sistema internacional, e as diversas formas que esta estrutura de conhecimento compartilhado pode assumir: as culturas da anarquia. Analisando o Novo Pensamento como uma ação crítica, reflexiva, e utilizando as ferramentas do interacionismo simbólico, a teoria idealista e estrutural de Wendt abre espaço para a agência dos atores estatais, e mostra como identidades e interesses são continuamente sustentados ou alterados no processo de interação. / [en] The dissertation deals with the constructivist theory of Alexander Wendt and the theoretical debate about the Cold War, particularly its end, highlighting the social aspect of the international system, and the many shapes this structure of shared knowledge can take: the cultures of anarchy. Analyzing the New Thinking as a critical and reflexive action, and using the tools of symbolic interaction,Wendts idealist and structural theory opens up to the state actors agency, and shows how identities and interests are continually sustained or altered in the process of interaction.

Since the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, China has become a nation that rises to strong power. While the USA, Japan, the EU and Russia marvel at China¡¦s progress and improvement, its neighboring countries in Asia were worried. They question whether the rise of China will bring about peaceful co-operation between nations or it will lead to potential threats. But China in 2005 claimed to take the path of peaceful development in order to improve the image of China. At the time the formation of the European Union, for its member countries to enjoy the advantage over import and export trade with each other, Asia also started a new union of its own, the ASEAN. Although there were negative impacts on China with Tiananmen Square Incident and poisonous milk incident, the Beijing 2008 Olympics games and the World Expo 2010 Shanghai have helped to improve the China¡¦s image which has brought the attention of the ASEAN. China signed the free trade agreement with the ASEAN in 2010 resulted in ASEAN Plus One. In addition, zero tariff trade agreement starting has further improved the development of China¡¦s economy. The Taiwanese government has signed the ECFA with China in June 2010 which relates to the development of the nation in the next ten years to a large extent. However, will ECFA really prevent the marginalization of Taiwan in the global economy or will Taiwan become more marginalized? Will China exploit the economy of Taiwan due to ECFA? Or will it help the Taiwanese economy to reach its peak? In this thesis, the theory of international relations will be examined at the global, international, local and individual levels and the analysis on the future development of the ASEAN and the Cross-strait political and economic relations of China and Taiwan from the perspectives of improving the image of China and ECFA will be carried out. The prediction of the future development of relations among the ASEAN, Mainland China and Taiwan will also be included in this research. Finally, suggestions will be provided in the conclusion for the leaders to make any future decisions on the issues discussed. It is unquestionable that most ¡§peaceful co-operation¡¨ between Taiwan and Mainland China has ever existed is happening today in the past 62 years of Cross-strait co-operation history. As such, it is hoped that the developments of both Mainland China and Taiwan can be sustained and they can co-operate to explore the resources of South East Asia.

Orientador: Flávia de Campos Mello. / Banca: Reginaldo Mattar Nasser / Banca: Rafael Duarte Villa / O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais é instituido em parceria co Unesp/Unicamp/PUC_SP, em projeto subsidiado pela CAPES, intitulado "Programa San Tiago Dantas" / Resumo: O trabalho retrata a diversificação do debate sobre "sociedade civil global" e sobre a ação política não-estatal além das fronteiras na literatura recente no campo das Relações Internacionais. O interesse no tema por parte de uma crescente gama de perspectivas teóricas reflete debates mais amplos em torno de conceitos que, ao lado da idéia de "sociedade civil global", surgiram na disciplina a partir do início dos anos 1990. Apresenta-se como cenário desta pluralização a insuficiência da literatura de inspiração liberal para explicar a permanência das desigualdades e hierarquias de poder no sistema mundial. Parte do imaginário positivo associado à "sociedade civil global" reside na idéia de que a perda de autonomia em âmbito doméstico - causada pelos processos de "globalização" - poderia ser compensada com o ativismo transnacional e/ou global, ou seja, na idéia de reformular a mediação entre universalidade/particularidade, formalizada na constituição das fronteiras modernas. Desse modo, o objetivo é estabelecer diálogos entre as várias perspectivas e mapear estas discussões tanto no que se refere aos atores e processos diretamente envolvidos na ação política não-estatal transnacional, quanto apontar sua inserção no debate teórico sobre as transposições de fronteiras, rearticulações das relações entre o doméstico e o internacional e a idéia de constituição de um campo político "global" / Abstract: This research shows the diversification of the debate on "global civil society" and the non-state political action beyond borders in the recent International Relations literature. The interest of an increasing variety of theoretical perspectives on these issues reflects wider debates on the concepts that - as the idea of "global civil society" - have emerged in the discipline since the beginning of the 1990s. The insufficiencies of liberal-oriented literature to explain the maintenance of inequalities and power hierarchies in the world system is the background to this diversification. Part of the positive image associated to a "global civil society" lies on the idea that the lost of autonomy in domestic realm - engendered by the globalization processes - could be counterbalanced with the transnational/global activism, that is to say in the idea of reformulating the mediation between universality/particularity formalized by the constitution of modern political boundaries. The objective is establishing dialogues between these variety of perspectives and mapping these discussions, not only in relation to the actors and process directly involved in the transnational political action, but also shedding light in their intersection with the wider and more theoretical debate on the problem of borders, of mediation / Mestre

South African foreign policy is not made in a bubble; as a democracy since 1994, its outward orientation is theoretically subject to lobbying and pressure from outside groups as well as jockeying among bureaucratic entities. This study applies the principles of Foreign Policy Analysis, a theoretical framework that attempts to unpack the processes through which governments’ foreign policies are made, to South Africa to determine whether foreign policy making is in reality open to outside inputs, or whether the foreign policy arena—as in many countries globally—is an elite reserve. The thesis has a specific focus on the 1994-2008 period, during which time Deputy President (1994-99) and later President (1999-2008) Thabo Mbeki dominated government’s foreign policy formulation, to determine whether South Africa’s democratic transition was accompanied by “democratization” of the foreign policy making process compared to the apartheid government. In addition, the thesis sought to disaggregate the various actors involved in the process—both from the influencing and decision making sides of the coin—to analyze their individual roles in influencing foreign policy, both pre- and post-1994. The thesis found that the dominant actor in South African foreign policy, both before and after 1994, was the national leader (Prime Minister before 1984; President thereafter) or, on occasion, his chosen delegate if the leader was disinterested in the external realm. This is in part because South African Constitutions vest most decision-making power in the executive, in line with international norms, but also due to a lack of pressure by non-governmental actors. While South Africa’s post-apartheid dispensation allows for greater inputs by the public and other outside actors, the practice of influencing foreign policy—either through the ballot box or through concerted pressure between elections—changed very little. Public engagement on foreign policy, already weak, did not improve after 1994. Parliament, despite having a dedicated committee on the issue, showed itself largely disinterested, as did the broader ANC. The press, business, the ANC, and most civil society organizations similarly showed little desire to weigh in on foreign policy beyond isolated instances. Only academia consistently attempted to influence policy during the Mandela and Mbeki administrations, with mixed results. Ultimately, blame for this lack of change appears to lie mostly with outside actors themselves, who during the first 14 years of democracy failed to take advantage of political space opened to them. In examining Thabo Mbeki specifically, the thesis found that he took advantage of this leeway to dominate the foreign policy debate and rarely went out of his way to open the foreign policy debate any more than he had to. He gave short shrift to the inputs of pressure groups; had no time for the press or business; and dominated the ANC and its parliamentary caucus. Mbeki had a clear and well-defined worldview, and he had little time for people or organizations with decidedly different views. That said, those close to Mbeki, and even outsiders—notably from the academic community—paint a far more nuanced picture of the man, as someone who would listen and engage with others on foreign policy, at least if he believed they had done their homework on the issues in question. Hence, portrayals of Mbeki as a “dictator” in the foreign policy realm appear to be overstated. / Political Sciences / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Politics)

Esta dissertação analisa, conceitual e metodologicamente, a questão dos ganhos relativos na teoria de Relações Internacionais. A análise passa pelo exame da literatura relevante, e pela apreciação da utilização que essa literatura faz do ferramental de teoria dos jogos. Identifica-se um problema metodológico ligado à escolha das premissas comportamentais dos jogadores. Na tentativa de contribuir para remediar essa lacuna, é elaborado um conceito, chamado de preço da cooperação, para explicar como varia a predileção por ganhos absolutos ou relativos por parte dos estados (jogadores). A análise sugere que a sensibilidade à distribuição de ganhos gerada pela preocupação dos estados com segurança é apenas uma das fontes dessa sensibilidade. De modo que os efeitos do problema dos ganhos relativos sobre a cooperação internacional devem ser pensados e investigados levando-se em conta um conjunto de fatores causadores de problemas de ganhos relativos, com destaque para os conflitos distributivos inerentes às barganhas. / This dissertation analyses the problem of relative gains in International Relations theory, both from a conceptual and a methodological point of view. The research examines the relevant literature and investigates how it uses the tools provided by game theory. The research focus on the problem of choosing the assumptions pertaining to the behavior of players, and proposes the concept of \"price of cooperation\" to explain the variation in players\' sensibility to relative gains. This study suggests that the concern with security is only one of many sources of sensibility to relative gains. As such, the effects of the relative gains problem upon international cooperation should be investigated taking into account the various factors that may increase preference for relative gains, with special attention to bargainings inherent distributive conflicts.