CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Németh, Bence |
|---|---|
| Title | THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT, NON-EXISTENT NATIONAL INTEREST |
| Summary | The thesis intends to provide a new concept of national interest which emphasizes a pluralist view of politics and offers a constructivist theoretical framework to understanding national interest. This concept argues that on the one hand national interest is one of the most important phenomena in international politics, but on the other hand it does not exist. It is one of the most important phenomena in international politics because national interest has an essential significance in the making of foreign policy, namely most of the countries define their foreign policy goals through their national interests. On the other hand, national interest does not exist in the sense as it is perceived traditionally because it never represents the interests of a nation. It represents the interests of different interest groups of the international society, which define their interests along their identities. |
| Supervisor | Kurowska, Xymena |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/nemeth_bence.pdf |
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