Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1975 (2. évfolyam)

1975 / 1. szám - A tanulmányok orosz és angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata

bean and Pacific countries is coming into operation this year.

The nature of association is here examined, including its major types, with special regard to the operating Yaunde and Arusha agreements between the French and English-speaking African countries and the Common Market.

The greater concessions to developing countries made in the agreement of the Nine and the Forty-Six are a sign of changing interna io- nal power relations. The mineral and energy resources of the latter, principally Nigeria, Zaire, Gabon and Zambia, attract the Common Market, and so does the prospect of new markets for exports.

The association does not, however, merely offer short-term economic advantage to Western Europe, it is important in terms of long range political strategy as well. The Common Market countries have clearly worked out their Mediterranean policy, being interested in the area not only for geographic reasons, but also because of North African oil resources. A stable, longterm Mediterranean policy, it is argued in Brussels, means paying due regard to what lies beyond, that is to the bountries of Black Africa, tying them down politically and economically.

This association will, very lihely, in the course of the next five years, strengthen the closed nature of West European links with Africa, offering advantages on African markets to West European firms, discriminating against outsiders. On the integration level it may well influence the stand of developing countries in all those areas, such as international trade, monetary arrangements and development, where the Common Market has asserted itself as an independent factor.

Péter Vas-Zoltän: On the theory of international affairs

A research discipline international affairs has come into being, one without a properly elaborated theory. The absence sticks in the eye since the nature of international affairs has changed in our day thanks to the existance of two world systems and of weapons of mass destruction. Theoretical and conceptual work must therefore be developed.

The theory of international affairs is a political science, it examines political conditions and is seeking to work out scientific foundations on which political decisions may be based. Bilateral and multilateral, intergovernmental and non-governmental etc. relations operating on various levels, both of a substantial and functional nature, '.re the subject of such research. It differ from politics inter alia in that polhical decisions generally include compromises, while the consequences drawn by the theory of international affairs are only limited by reality, the latter being a science. As a social science it shows a high degree of complexity. The socialist theory of international affairs is determined by Marxism—Leninism. Practice demands continuous systematic and creative theoretical work, looking for answers to questions as they arise.

Its methodology is largely that of Marxist—- Leninist dialectics, but it makes use of other research methods as well that help discover what is true Politology in the bourgeois sense is rejected, and so are psychoanalytic methods in research into international questions, but the achievements of systems analysis, of quantitative and simulation methods, can be exploited.

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