Diaspora and the deconstruction of national government sovereignty in contemporary international relations

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD student of International Relations, Kharazmi University

2 Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Kharazmi University

10.22080/jpir.2021.20323.1171

Abstract

The issue of state sovereignty in the context of developments in international relations has always been one of the main topics discussed by international relations thinkers. After the end of the Cold War and the objectification of globalization, the conceptual and theoretical realm of international relations has shifted to semantics and the field of cultural policy. In the new space, the necessary grounds have been provided for the emergence of various political actors, and the sovereignty of states in international relations has become problematic with the inspiration of the new cycle. Diaspora is one of the categories that have been introduced in the new space as transnational actors and has found an important place in the field of international politics and foreign policy of governments. The article is looking to examine the impact of diaspora actors on the sovereignty of governments. Therefore, with the method of content analysis based on the library technique to answer the question of how in the new cycle of international relations of diaspora actors, it has affected the deconstruction of the sovereignty of the national government? In response, it is assumed that in contemporary international relations, the diaspora has redrawn the sovereignty of the nation-state on the issue of borders, identity, violence, and state-oriented action. The findings show that the sovereignty of the national government in the beam of the policy and practice of the diaspora in the above four categories, in different ways is passing and redrawing itself with new procedures.

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