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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 3 / 2017  
         
  Article:   IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTIONS AND SOCIOLOGICAL (MIS)UNDERSTANDINGS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. THE CASE OF ‘TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITY’.

Authors:  ȘERBAN VĂETIȘI.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbeuropaea.2017.3.11

Published Online: 2017-09-30
Published Print: 2017-09-30

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ABSTRACT:
The article investigates the various formulas and constructions expressing and contributing to the evolution of ‘Transatlantic community’ as regional transcontinental set of relationships; political and discursive construction of shared principles, values, and strategies; and social/sociological reality. The suggested analysis provides a critical reappraisal of some of its fundamental elements of definition, ideology, political structure and social-historical complexity, while attempting to contrast between the systemic and intrasystemic views of community. The interpretation reveals the necessity to ask ourselves whether there exist something like a ‘Transatlantic community’ that can be defined in sociological sense, and, secondly, to question the uses and limits of a sociology of international relations as sociology of transatlantic community. The article concludes on some mutations at the level of sociological epistemology, that would ultimately reposition a legitimate focus on Transatlantic community, beyond its critical histories, supra-political reality, restrictive policies, and Manichaean ideology.

Keywords: Transatlantic community, Sociology of International Relations, community, ideology, Transantlanticism, political discourse
 
         
     
         
         
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