Refleksi Teori Hubungan Internasional: Dari Tradisional ke Kontemporer

Judul Buku    :  Refleksi Teori Hubungan Internasional: Dari Tradisional ke Kontemporer

 

Penulis           :  Asrudin; Mirza Jaka Suryana, dkk

Jml Hal          :  xii + 484

Penerbit         : Graha Ilmu (Yogyakarta)

Th. Terbit       :  2009

Format           :  21 x 26

ISBN               :  978-979-756-493-3

Harga             :  Rp. 98.800,-

 

Komentar Para Pakar:

Fenomena hubungan internasional semakin lama semakin mendekat ke persoalan sehari-hari penduduk di berbagai belahan dunia, termasuk Indonesia. Cara kita menjalani kehidupan sehari-hari sangat jelas dipengaruhi oleh kejadian-kejadian diarena internasional. Keberhasilan kita untuk memenuhi kebutuhan fisik, seperti pangan, sangat ditentukan oleh fenomena internasional. Upaya kita untuk menjadi pintar, juga sangat terkendala oleh banyak hal yang terjadi di luar wilayah kita. Itu berarti bahwa kita mesti belajar untuk memahami apa yang sebenarnya terjadi di luar sana. Kita mesti belajar mendeskripsikan apa yang terjadi. Mencoba mengerti mengapa itu terjadi dan bagaimana mengatasi dampaknya terhadap kehidupan kita. Karena itulah saya menyambut dengan gembira penerbitan karya-karya seperti yang terhimpun dalam buku ini. Buku yang tidak hanya menyajikan analisis ilmiah, tetapi juga menyajikan perspektif nilai mengenai apa yang mesti dilakukan sehingga kehidupan di arena internasional itu bisa relevan dan bermanfaat bagi upaya manusia menyelesaikan masalah keseharian mereka.

Prof. DR. Mohtar Mas’oed

Guru Besar FISIP Universitas Gajah Mada (UGM)

 

Studi Hubungan Internasional di Indonesia, meskipun termasuk bidang studi yang cukup banyak diminati, masih kekurangan berbagai literatur akademis mengenai bidang studi itu sendiri. Kekurangan itu akan semakin terasa apabila kita melihat ketersediaan berbagai buku-buku teks (text-books) dalam bahasa Indonesia. Kalaupun tersedia, buku-buku teks yang ada pada umumnya bersifat pengantar. Buku Refleksi Teori Hubungan Internasional: Dari Tradisional ke Kontemporer ini, patut disambut baik sebagai langkah awal dari dimulainya tradisi penulisan buku-buku teks mengenai perkembangan ’teori’ hubungan internasional dalam bahasa Indonesia, khususnya yang bersifat advanced. Para mahasiswa, akademisi, dan peminat Studi Hubungan Internasional pada umumya, akan mendapat manfaat besar dari buku ini.

(Dr. Rizal Sukma)

Deputy Executive Director Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

 

Dalam beberapa waktu belakangan ini, fenomena hubungan internasional telah dan akan terus menunjukkan komplekitas yang semakin tinggi. Hal ini ditunjukkan bukan saja pada  semakin beragamnya aktor hubungan internasional yang saling berinteraksi (the actors), tetapi juga ditunjukkan dengan semakin bervariasinya isu (the issues) yang diperbincangkan dalam hubungan internasional serta semakin rumitnya proses interaksi (the process) yang terjadi antar berbagai aktor hubungan internasional. Sementara itu di sisi lain, perkembangan teori hubungan internasional terkesan terseok-seok, bila tidak dikatakan mandeg sama sekali, dalam menerangkan berbagai fenomena hubungan internasional. Untuk itu, semua upaya yang dilakukan untuk terus meninjau perkembangan teori Hubungan Internasional bukan saja patut diapresiasi secara positif tetapi juga patut didorong tingkat kuantitas dan kualitasnya dalam komunitas hubungan internasional di Indonesia. Buku ini tentunya juga patut disambut gembira karena telah mendorong upaya petualangan ilmiah yang lebih kritis untuk meninjau kembali berbagai upaya teorisasi Hubungan Internasional. Terlepas dari beberapa kelemahan metodologis, buku ini dapat menjadi salah satu referensi utama dalam studi Hubungan Internasional di Indonesia, terlebih di tengah terbatasnya literatur Hubungan Internasional berbahasa Indonesia. Buku ini diharapkan dapat memperkaya studi Hubungan Internasional di Indonesia dan dapat pula membantu kita dalam memahami berbagai perkembangan hubungan internasional dewasa ini.

(Prof. Anak Agung Banyu Perwita, Ph.D)

Guru Besar Ilmu Hubungan Internasional, FISIP-Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Bandung.

Indonesian Foreign Policy and the Dilemma of Dependence: From Sukarno to Soeharto

ISBN	: 978-979-3780-56-6
Size	: 15.2 x 23 x 2.2 cm
Weight	: 575 g
Pages	: 388
Format	: Softcover
Price	: USD 29.95

 

 

 

By Franklin B. Weinstein

About The Book

How can an underdeveloped country like Indonesia draw on outside resources for its national development without sacrificing its independence? Approaching the problem from the vantage point of the Indonesian elite, this important work explores the complex interactions between domestic political factors and the shaping of foreign policy.

To illustrate the ways in which underdevelopment has affected Indonesia’s international participation, Professor Weinstein presents a graphic picture of what Indonesia’s leaders see when they view the outside world, and he systematically seeks out the sources of their perceptions. He shows that most of the elite see the international system as dominated by exploitative powers that cannot be relied on to assist Indonesia’s development. He examines the relationship between perceptions and politics under both Sukarno and Soeharto and offers an illuminating comparison of the bases of foreign policy under each leader, revealing dramatic changes and surprising continuities. His cogent analysis helps to explain the sharp reversal of policy in 1966, and his conclusions form a convincing hypothesis that can be tested in other Third World countries.

This book, now brought back to life as a member of Equinox Publishing’s Classic Indonesia series, will attract specialists in Southeast Asia, as well as readers with a broader interest in the politics and economics of underdeveloped countries.

About The Author

Franklin B. Weinstein was Director of the Project on United States-Japan Relations at Stanford University, where he also taught in the Department of Political Science. A graduate of Yale University, he received his PhD from Cornell University.

Iver B. Neumann. Russia and the Idea of Europe: A Study in Identity and International Relations. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. 253 p. Conclusion Chapter

The book outlines the Russian debate about Europe as it has unfolded over the last two hundred years and demonstrates how – despite enormous changes in setting – the debate has nevertheless turned around a tightly limited number of ideas. The author demonstrates how this debate is central to the current Russian political situation.

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Conclusion

The Russian debate about Europe has focussed on a tightly limited number of questions, which has been answered by a very limited number of ideas. The preceding chapters have demonstrated how these ideas have been generated and transformed by one another within a public political space controlled by the Russian state. In discussing Europe, the Russians have also clearly been discussing themselves, and so the debate is an example of how Russians have talked themselves into existence.

Having spent the eighteenth century copying contemporary European models, the Russian state went on to offer its citizens two different models to identify with. During the nineteenth century, the Russian state represented itself as ‘true Europe’ in a situation where the rest of Europe had failed the best in its own tradition by turning away from the past values of the anciens rйgimes. During the twentieth century, the Russian state represented itself as ‘true Europe’ in a situation where the rest of Europe had failed the best in its own tradition by not turning to the future values of socialism.

What will be the position of the state in the Russian debate about Europe at the threshold of the twenty-first century? There always exists the possibility that some entirely new idea will appear and be adopted by the state – perhaps as a reaction to some unexpected new development in Europe. It seems highly likely, however, that such a new idea would have its roots in European thinking. This prediction is made bearing in mind that all the participants in the debate have drawn on European ideas to forge their own. Where the constitutionalists and, later, the liberals are concerned, they always acknowledged their intellectual debt to Europe. Yet the romantic nationalists as well as other positions which are not for the time being present in the debate – like populists and Bolsheviks – and who frequently protested their independence of European thinking, were nevertheless also deeply indebted to it. It was demonstrated above how the early romantic nationalists adopted German romantic national thinking to their own ends, how the populists paid homage to European thinkers, and how the Bolsheviks predicated their ideas on European ones. When a contemporary anti-modern romantic nationalist like Solzhenitsyn rails against Western civilisation, he does so within European literary genres like the novel and the essay, availing himself of European-developed media like the newspaper, in a public debate upheld by conventions developed in Europe, in a formal language with its roots in Europe, availing himself of linguistic archaisms in the way pioneered by German romantic nationalists. In short, it has always been the fate of Russians and others who have wanted to forge a non-European, anti-hegemonic debate that such debates cannot fail to maintain ties to Europe, if only inversely so, because of the very fact that they are patterned as attempts to negate the European debate, and therefore remain defined by it.

Book Info: Social Construction Of International Politics

(Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999)

By Ted Hopf

 

Contents

preface ix

1. constructivism at home 1

Theory and Method

2. the russian nation, new soviet man,

class, and modernity 39

Identity Relations in 1955

3. identities as social structures 83

Enabling and Constraining Soviet Alliance Choices in 1955

4. historical, internal, and external others 153

Russian Identity in 1999

5. the unipolar world 211

Recentering a Peripheral Russia in 1999

6. identity, foreign policy, and ir theory 259

index 297

 

In this deeply researched book Ted Hopf challenges contemporary theorizing about international relations. He advances what he believes is a commonsensical notion: a state’s domestic identity has an enormous effect on its international policies. Hopf argues that foreign policy elites are inextricably bound to their own societies; in order to understand other states, they must first understand themselves. To comprehend Russian and Soviet foreign policy, “it is just as important to read what is being consumed on the Moscow subway as it is to conduct research in the Foreign Ministry archives,” the author says.
Hopf recreates the major currents in Russian/Soviet identity, reconstructing the “identity topographies” of two profoundly important years, 1955 and 1999. To provide insights about how Russians made sense of themselves in the post-Stalinist and late Yeltsin periods, he not only uses daily newspapers and official discourse, but also delves into works intended for mass consumption—popular novels, film reviews, ethnographic journals, high school textbooks, and memoirs. He explains how the different identities expressed in these varied materials shaped the worldviews of Soviet and Russian decisionmakers. Hopf finds that continuous renegotiations and clashes among competing domestic visions of national identity had a profound effect on Soviet and Russian foreign policy. Broadly speaking, Hopf shows that all international politics begins at home.

 

Reviews

“In this impressive work of interpretivist international relation theorizing, Ted Hopf seeks an understanding of how the identities contained within a state affect the ways in which that state views others.”–Virginia Quarterly Review, 79:3

“Identity, the author believes, is crucial in shaping one’s understanding of states as adversaries, allies, or something in between. Identity’s content, however, can be conjured not by drawing on a priori categories but only by uncovering society’s discourses, and these emerge not only from speeches, texts, essays, and editorials, but even from pulp fiction.” –Foreign Affairs, March/April 2003.

“Ted Hopf, a professor of political science at Ohio State University and author of works on both American and Russian foreign policy, has produced an intriguing book. Social Construction of International Politics is an examination of how Soviet and, later, Russian leaders understood the USSR, Russia, and other states in terms of social identities, and how those social identities were instrumental in shaping Soviet and Russian foreign policy choices. . . . For specialists of Soviet and/or Russian foreign policy, or international relations theorists, this is a worthwhile read and one that I recommend.” –Nathaniel Richmond, Utica College, The Russian Review, 62:4, October 2003.
“Ted Hopf has long been at the forefront of linking theories of social construction and identity to the empirical study of foreign policy. In this long-awaited magnum opus, he develops valuable insights from the social theory of identity, invents a highly sophisticated inductive method for discovering political identities, and demonstrates the method with fascinating case studies from the history of Soviet and Russian foreign policy. No serious student of international relations, qualitative methodology, or Russian politics can afford to ignore this path-breaking work.”–Matthew Evangelista, Author of Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War

“Ted Hopf’s discussion of what identity entails, his careful delineation of the lines between individual and social cognition, and his approach to discerning the very diverse axes that define identity are all among the most sophisticated treatments of these issues I have seen in the literature on international relations.”–James Richter, Bates College

“Social Construction of International Politics is one of the most original and important works to appear in international relations theory in many years. This book will become the definitive theoretical statement of interpretivist constructivism, one rooted in cognitive psychology and symbolic interactionism.”–Douglas Blum, Providence College

 

About the Author

Ted Hopf is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University. His previous books include Peripheral Visions: Deterrence Theory and American Foreign Policy in the Third World, 1965–1990 and Understandings of Russian Foreign Policy.