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My ‘SYMBIOTIC REALISM: A TransDisciplinary-
#InternationalRelationsTheory’
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#SymbioticRealism, draws from:
1-Neuroscience-based, NonSpeculative-Views of Human Nature & Neurobiological/NeuroBehavioural interplay between Emotionality-Rationality,
2-Unifies insights from the Life Sciences,
3-With Ideas from
#RealistIRTheory,
4-Identifies SEVEN Current & Future Global Forces Influencing the International System on Earth and in Outer Space (see below)
5-Acknowledges DisruptiveTechnologies-Mediated: Instant Connectivity & Deepening Interdependence (Real/Authentic & Covertly Manipulative/Weaponized )
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SYMBIOTIC REALISM, is predicated on the notion that the Contemporary Landscape of
#IR is shaped, by
#SevenInterdependentForces:
1-
#DisruptiveTechnologies exponential & game-changing advancements;
2-Changing role, independence, threats & capacities of
#NonStateActors;
3-Emergence of Novel-
#GeoStrategicDomains (e.g. GenerativeAI, Cyberspace & OuterSpace);
4-Rise of Collective-
#CivilizationalFrontierRisks (e.g. AI, QuantumComputing, Pandemics, Synthetic Biology, SupplyChains, Environmental Security, TransNational Crime);
5-Weaponization-of-Economic-Interdependence;
6-Intensification/Unmasking of sub-/supra-national
#TransCultural-
#HistoricalSchisms;
7-Neuroscientific Innovations about the Predispositions of
#HumanNature (which profoundly influences the previous six forces). ----------------------- SYMBIOTIC REALISM, also explains that State Behavior in the Existing Structure of the Anarchic-SelfHelp-International System is, INFLUENCED/GOVERNED by: 1-State
#EMOTIONALITY ( Personal, Political, Economic, Cultural, Historical, Ideological) 2-State
#AMORALITY3-State
#EGOISM (Rational-NationalInterest)
&
MOTIVATED by what I have Called the
#NeuroP5:
1-STATE
#POWER (In all Seven State Capacities)
2-STATE
#PROFIT (Endogenous Capacities/Innovations, Manipulative/Extractive/Exploitative/Weaponized Economic Gains from Others);
3-STATE
#PLEASURE (Independence, Freedoms, Happy/Safe/Secure & Progressive/Prosperous/Sustainable-Living);
4-STATE
#PRIDE (Prestige, Real-and-Biased/Skewed/Imaginary/Manufactured/Unfair/Binary/Condescending/Exclusionary/Arrogant, National/Patriotic/Cultural/Historical-Narratives);
5-STATE
#PERMENANCY (Survival, Sovereignty, National Institutions, Resources, Cultural Frameworks, Strategic Culture, Historical/Cultural Norms/Narratives & Primacy of GeoPolitical Realities & GeoStrategic Imperatives);
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SYMBIOTIC REALISM, therefore:
1-Discards the
#ZeroSum-logic that requires one state to lose, for another state to win and sees
#MultiSum-outcomes as both possible & achievable;
2-Posits that GlobalPeace/GlobalSecurity & Strategic Stability consist of
#FiveSecurityDimensions: Human, Environmental, National, TransNational(includes OuterSpace) & TransCultural;
3-Employs pragmatic, Multi-Sum, Symbiotic, WinWin & NonConflictual-Competition with
#AbsoluteGains, rather than Relative Gains;
4-Assumes that
#Competition is the foundation of the international system NOT
#Cooperation; But does not abandon the possibility of Temporary Cooperation through Alliance(s)/Balancing, inspired by Conflict or Potential Conflict & suggests that in all situations, this is likely to be "Need-Based" & thus Unreliable / Unsustainable;
5-Advances the view that National Interests can/must be reconciled with TransNational & TransPlanetary interests, if they are to be achieved in sustainable, cost-effective and peaceful ways;
6-Concludes that as a result of the above assumptions, States are (more likely) to accept, Differential-Strategic Capacities of other states (which may include: Political Power, Economic Power, Military/Strategic Power, Prosperity, Efficacious Governance, Health, Education, Technological Innovation), as Reconcilable, Fluid & Non-Conflictual or Threatning.
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