Conceptualization of geoeconomics in the constructivist paradigm
https://doi.org/10.37493/2307-910X.2023.4.29
Abstract
In the study the authors identify three approaches to understanding the essence of geoeconomics: geographical, instrumental and discursive. Within the first approach geoeconomics is interpreted as a scientific discipline that studies the economic aspects of global geographic space. Within the second as a strategy that involves the use of economic resources for foreign policy purposes. The third approach implies geoeconomics as a worldview or a way of seeing the world, in which economic goals and means of foreign policy activity acquire significance and priority. The authors come to the conclusion that neorealism and neoliberalism are associated with an instrumental approach, while constructivism is associated with a discursive one. From a constructivist point of view geoeconomics as a discourse endows actors with economic interests and obliges them to use economic instruments of international political influence.
About the Authors
N. Yu. Shlyundt
Nevinnomyssk State Humanitarian and Technical Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nadezhda Yu. Shlyundt – Cand. Sci (Law), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Legal and Humanitarian Disciplines
17, Mira Boulevard, Nevinnomyssk, 357108, +79624546753
S. A. Nefedov
Pyatigorsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey A. Nefedov – PhD in Politics, Leading Researcher, Department of Coordination of Research and Innovation-Project Activities in Specialty, Master‘s and Postgraduate Programs
9, Kalinin Avenue, Pyatigorsk, 357532, +79620130150
S. I. Linets
Pyatigorsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey I. Linets – Dr. Sci. (Hist.), Professor, Professor of the Department of Historical and SocioPhilosophical Disciplines, Oriental Studies and Theology
9, Kalinin Avenue, Pyatigorsk, 357532
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Shlyundt N.Yu., Nefedov S.A., Linets S.I. Conceptualization of geoeconomics in the constructivist paradigm. Modern Science and Innovations. 2023;(4):239-245. https://doi.org/10.37493/2307-910X.2023.4.29
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