International Quarterly of Foreign Relations

International Quarterly of Foreign Relations

Embedded Polarity: Explanation of Polarity Ratio and Field Order

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Hadi Soleimanpour 1
Mojtaba Hosseinifahraji 2
Ali Salehian 3
Mostafa Najafi 4
Sajad Soleimanpour 5
1 Faculty of International Relations and Head of the Foreign Policy and International Relations Committee of the Secretariat of the Expediency Discernment Council, Tehran, Iran
2 PhD Student, Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 PhD Student, Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
4 PhD Student of International Relations, university of tarbiat modares, Tehran, Iran
5 MA in International Relations, School of International Relations, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/fr.2024.460673.1541
Abstract
Global order has an immediate effect on international relations(IR). The upcoming world order is one of the main concerns of scholars and practitioners of this discipline. It seems the post-World War liberal order evolving into an unsettled order. One of the most important foundations of any order is to explore the features of polarity,which somehow represents the distribution of power. The main question is “How could distribution of power at a global level and the form of polarity in the upcoming world order”. This article is a theoretical examination to address the relationship between Order and Polarity.The results indicate that the upcoming order will be the thematic order in which the relative advantages (material and cognitive capabilities) of great powers, in each theme have been materialized. In that kind of order, polarization will form within each theme to distribute power and regulate interactions between powers in the same theme. This kind of polarity named as “Embedded polarity” depicts the relations of great powers in every field. Embeddedness means that cooperation like competition has been inherited from each theme. Therefore, the interaction of powers depends on the on-ground situation in each field. This new emerging concept of polarity will shape the upcoming world order.
Keywords
The upcoming world order"
power"
polarity"
institutional arrangements"
Thematic order"
"
embedded polarity"
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