Abstract

FERNANDES, António Horta. The international anarchy: critical of a realist myth. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2012, n.36, pp.87-109. ISSN 1645-9199.

The present paper aims to show that, not only the concept of anarchy cannot be anchored in the author that traditionally has worked as its validator - Hobbes -, it has no foundation whatsoever, except possibly a mythical one. International anarchy entails an ontological state, not a phenomenological one, of permanent war, of chaos incompatible with the presence of sovereign powers in the international scene. the concept of anarchy, despite the structural aporiae that thwart its sustainability, serves a particular status quo, pursues the preservation of the logic of power internationally and, for that reason alone, it remains an object of afection to those who dictate the rules, as an ideological apparatus that does not bind them.

Keywords : War; realism; sovereignity; anarchy.

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