Novas abordagens sobre “O Internacional”: teorias, objetos e metodologias

Abstract

This paper is guided by the principle that the research methodologies that analyze the social relations locally may be the same as the ones that think them globally. This epistemological principle helps us to understand and to elaborate questions to the limits of the traditional knowledge production in the International Relations field and how the existing theoretical contributions are typically applied. The connections and differentiations between the national and the international are the result of a complex process, historically constructed, from internal and external elements. In these processes, oriented by Pierre Bourdieu's relational sociology and Alexander Wendt's constructivism and starting from the premise that the social world is relational and formed by struggles and disputes, the relationships established by countries depend on the social, political and cultural context. Given the importance of these processes, we aim to think international phenomenon from non-traditional perspectives, exceeding the limits of the approaches already established the International Relation field and proposing research agendas. These perspectives necessarily require rethinking the notion of state that the tradition of international relations has established and have little purpose to debate. Thus, we aim to raise possibilities regarding objects, methodologies and innovative theoretical contributions by proposing new explanations about social and political relations in internationalized areas.