Cultural challenges in the 21st century international community-building, its impact on international relations and the role of strategic communication

Abstract

Karl Deutsch (1912-1992) was a Czech-American-German political scientist, who significantly contributed to the discipline of International Relations with two key concepts. Security community according to Deutsch focuses on peaceful change towards an integrated community which relies on shared (expectedly liberal democratic) values. The experience of the 21st century has demonstrated that building Hobbesian and Lockean ideological communities may become a reliable tool in challenging the Kantian international system and it would become an attractive task for sophisticated status seeking actors, change-oriented in cultural patterns of the system. Identity politics has become the ideological keyword of the 21st century, and the international society is deeply divided between supporters of conservatism and liberalism, nationalism and globalism, protectionism, and supporters of free trade, among others. Change-oriented culturally diverse ideological communities started to challenge the post- Cold War international system, which initially followed the Kantian cultural patterns. Another important contribution of Deutsch refers to the term of deutocracy – the control over means of mass communication and, and the use of information in political activities. Modern ideological communities practice active strategic communication which relies on successful dissemination of their strategic narratives. Besides papers studying the impact of culturally diverse status-seekers on political/security community-building, this panel also welcomes papers which analyze the impact of strategic communication and strategic narratives on cultural/ideological community building.

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