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Importance of ideology in international relations
Stuti Bajpeyee
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Ideology: Meaning• Ideology is defined as set of ideas which
reflects the beliefs, interest, the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture.
• Ideology constitutes the goals, expectations, and actions of a person.
Role of Ideology
• Provides justification to the acts• Directs the behaviour of nation • Sometimes an ambiguous term• Nation always cover and shape their
ideologies on the basis of their national interest
• Important for formulating foreign policy
• Its necessary to maintain interstate relations in todays world which needs the government to act in a particular manner which is provided by ideology.
• It plays a very important role in human behavior and influences international relations .
During cold war
• The fundamental cause was the difference of ideologies between the West and the East, USA and the USSR in particular
• Capitalists• a capitalist economy is based upon private
profit and free competition. • Encourages private individual to own business• It emphasized on class based society
• Communist• A communist economy is controlled by
government • wealth and resources owned by state or the
government• State controls the economic activities• classes society
Twentieth century
• No standard ideology existed and was followed
• Its all about ideological conflicts• Liberal democratic- no single ideology, no
sanction• Communist- basis in Marxist ideology• Totalitarian- ideas were imposed with sanction
Where is ideology today
• Fundamentally transformed society• Ideology has lost its relevance• Movement politics is replaced by issue politics• Replaced totalistic and molecular ideology• Whereas, Ideology forms basis of healthy
democratic life • Gives direction to act upon and shall be
preserved
Conclusion
• Although now a days ideology has lost its relevance due to undoubted changes in the society but it has got a significant role in formation of foreign policies and establish international relations and hence necessary steps shall be taken to retain and safeguard the concept of the ideology .
Bibliography
Web sources:• https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_col
d_war_studies/v001/1.1gould-davies.html• http://legacy.wilsoncenter.org/coldwarfiles/in
dex-21865.html• http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20097
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Articles referred:• The debate over ideology• Globalization ideologies
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