Külügyi Szemle - A Teleki László Intézet Külpolitikai Tanulmányok Központja folyóirata - 2002 (1. évfolyam)
2002 / 1. szám - RÉSUMÉ - Blahó András: Integrated International Production and Its Effects within the Conditions of Accelerated Globalization
Résumé in enhancing the transnationally networked "fabric" in which the players are embedded. While political realism tends to empower states, virtual diplomacy will likely empower networks of state and nonstate actors, encourages states to cooperate in coalitions and other mutual frameworks. However, much can be done to better embrace a networked global environment. To address the challenges, and to remain as relevant and effective as possible in this new environment, the foreign affairs apparatus must adapt its diplomatic strategy and develop a new „virtual" diplomacy which must be increasingly networked and technology-driven, and it must be able to react with speed, flexibility, reach and efficiency. Governments must fully engage in a networked global dialogue that allows different groups to work together to fashion the most appropriate responses to short-term crises and long-term challenges. Accessibility, inclusiveness, flexibility and connectivity: these are the watchwords of the virtual diplomacy. Governments and foreign offices must change the way they do business to make their best voices heard in a networked world. The central question for diplomats in the 21th century is how do they influence international forces they cannot control. András Blahó: Integrated International Production and Its Effects ivithin the Conditions of Accelerated Globalization In the aftermath of accelerated world economic development after the 1960s complex enterprise strategies and organisational forms of transnational corporations (TNCs) have developed. These strategies and organisational forms show transparently that all parts of the value-added chain could be produced in different geographical region. One or more elements of the transnational corporate system are interpreted and managed as integrated international production system although the place of such international production is still located in politically sovereign national states. Such global corporate systems modify substantially the efficiency of national control mechanisms. International relations are „internalized" within the systems of TNCs, inter-company relations become international relations per se. No global political interest and cooperation has developed so far in the dialectic process of globalization and fragmentation, which would govern autonomous international actors - such as states, international organisations and transnational corporations - according to the interests of the global community. One of the most important tasks of the global coalition established in the Fall of 2001 is exactly the articulation of interest and interest relations of global developments for all states of the world. Parallel to the globalizing nature of integrated international production of transnational corporations, new ways of inluence and control mechanisms of globalized international relations could emerge, based on the new, changing world economic and political conditions. 2002. tavasz 223
