Power and Narcists – Ideal Types of States Based on Their Sources of National Power, Extraction Capability and Foreign Policy Behaviour

Mateusz Z. Filary-Szczepanik

Power and Narcists – Ideal Types of States Based on Their Sources of National Power, Extraction Capability and Foreign Policy Behaviour

Publication date: 19.09.2022

Teoria Polityki, 2022, No. 6/2022, pp. 147-167

https://doi.org/10.4467/25440845TP.22.004.16004

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Power and Narcists – Ideal Types of States Based on Their Sources of National Power, Extraction Capability and Foreign Policy Behaviour

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This paper aims at problematizing this distinction between status quo and revisionist/imperialist states by creating a typology of four kind of states: imperialist, status quo, young and old narcist state. The text will proceed in three sections that: 1) problematises the contemporary realist theorising; 2) reconstructs Morgenthau’s notions of sources of national and political power, ideal types of foreign policy and the character of political community and its interest; 3) presents the four ideal types of states. This typology, based on analyticist metatheory and deeply inspired by Hans Morgenthau’s thought, aims at solving problems with neorealist, and neoclassical realist theorising. Based on such non-positivist metatheory, and thus closer to the classical realist roots, it omits the offensive/defensive neorealist assumption about states motivation. By explicitly combining the three historically bound qualities of states –their sources of national power, extraction capability and foreign policy behaviour it transcends the problems with weak causal linkages between state level variables present in neoclassical realism. Hence, it exemplifies the approach to general theory-building that is practically viable for explicitly exerting normative judgement, also from the perspective non great power state actors – the consistent weakness of mainstream, contemporary realist theorising.

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classical realism, neorealism, neoclassical realism, analyticism, ideal types of states, extraction capability, power, sources of power, foreign policy behaviour

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Information: Teoria Polityki, 2022, No. 6/2022, pp. 147-167

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25440845TP.22.004.16004

Article type: Original article

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Power and Narcists – Ideal Types of States Based on Their Sources of National Power, Extraction Capability and Foreign Policy Behaviour

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Power and Narcists – Ideal Types of States Based on Their Sources of National Power, Extraction Capability and Foreign Policy Behaviour

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Mateusz Z. Filary-Szczepanik

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9185-7904

Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow
Poland

Published at: 19.09.2022

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