| ID | 168398 |
| Title Proper | Transitional Justice and Foreign Policy Nexus |
| Other Title Information | the Inefficient Causation of State Ontological Security-Seeking |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mälksoo, Maria |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | How does an approach towards transitional justice produce preconditions for a country's international action, enabling certain policies and practices in the immediate neighborhood and international society at large? This article unpacks ontological security-seeking as a generic social mechanism in international politics, which makes it possible to productively conceptualize the connection between a state's transitional justice and foreign policies. Going beyond the dichotomy of transitional justice compliance and noncompliance by gauging the role of states’ subjective sense of self in driving their behavior, I develop an analytical framework to explain how state ontological security-seeking relates to major transitions and consequent state identity disjuncture, the ensuing politics of truth-and-justice-seeking, and its international resonance in framing and executing particular foreign policies. I offer a typology of the international consequences of states’ transitional justice politics, distinguishing between reflective and mnemonical security-oriented approaches, spawning cooperative and conflictual foreign policy behavior, respectively. The empirical purchase of the purported nexus is illustrated with the example of post-Soviet Russia's limited politics of accountability toward the repressions of its antecedent regime and its increasingly self-assertive and confrontational stance in contemporary international politics. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Studies Review Vol. 21, No.3; Sep 2019: p.373–397 |
| Journal Source | International Studies Review Vol: 21 No 3 |
| Key Words | Russia ; Transitional Justice ; Ontological Security ; Foreign Policy ; Inefficient Causation |