冷戰의 終熄과 국제 체제의 변화 : '國際社會階層' 개념의 導入 An Introduction of Social Stratification = The Post-Cold War Era and Changes in the International System

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The intention of this paper is to prove into the end of the Cold War, to delineate characteristics of the post-Cold War international order and changes in the international system. to examine the existing explanations, and its limitations, for the structure of international system, and to apply the notions of status and stratification to the study of structure and its transformation in the international system.
There are quite a few characteristics and changes in the post - Cold War era. The bipolar configuration of power appears to have lost its validity and the primacy of military - political power has been diminished by the which emergence of economic - social - cultural dimensions of power in international politics. The means by which nations assert power and interests has changed dramatically. Nations increasingly defend and enhance their interests through geoeconomic rather than geopolitical means. Accordingly, low politics appears to carry equal weight to high politics. In addition, the multilateral interdependence, lash of local and regional conflict, formation of economic bloc and regionalism, and hegemonic pursuit of technology and information are more often depicted than others in the aftermath of bipolar Cold War system.
This paper process an introduction of status and stratification for the purpose of understanding the structural transformation in the international system. In the stratified social system of nations, the density of a nation's relationships and interactions with others, the extent and intensity of its involvement and participation are likely to reflect as well as affect its status as a member of the global society. Some inherent characteristics and particular attributes of a nation may be stratified and placed in hierarchy according to their variations. The status of a nation is the position, with which it is recognized in the society of nations. A system of these status is stratification, which consider how nations are accorded their positions in the social hierarchy. Just like the 'power maximization' in power politics, nations seek 'status maximization' in status politics of international stratification. Likewise the 'characteristic relationship' among nations in the international system becomes 'status relationships' among participants in the system of international stratification.
The application of a stratification approach to a study of structural changes in the international system requires further works on the specific dimensions of stratification to be examined (i.e. dimensionality of stratification). on social mobility, which connotes the alterations or modifications in the rank - ordering of nations (i.e. status movement of nation). and on social inequality, in terms of its level and developmental trend in th international stratification system. As a process of ranking hierarchically, the international stratification, in this paper, is regarded as the differential evaluation of nations and their treatments as relatively higher or lower to each other on the basis of socially approved and/or generally desired attributes or characteristics. Thus, the arrays of rank - ordering display not only standing of nations in comparison with each other, but also the existence of unequal distribution of value among nations in the international system.