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    Realist and Constructivist Interpretations and Representations of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: As an Event and as a Process
    (MDPI, 2025) Simons, Greg; Chifu, Iulian
    The aim of this article is to analyze communications from the presidential and security council websites on the interpretations and representations of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War to understand how people, places, and events were interpreted and represented in terms of realism and constructivism in the geopolitics of the conflict to global audiences. Critical discourse analysis is used as a methodology for highlighting and making sense of texts in terms of the intangible elements of power relations, reputation and brand of the actors, relative balance of ethics and morality of the belligerents, value judgements, and predictions of the war’s outcome. There is a clear tendency to engage in what Sun Tsu and von Clausewitz characterize as the politics of war using brand and reputation management to global audiences of a good and virtuous self-image versus a projected ruthless opponent lacking virtue. This is an exploratory paper with an indicative result, and several apparent trends emerge. One observation suggests that the actor that is militarily weaker tends to communicate more often to shape the political variables that influence the conduct of war. The role of constructivist rhetoric is being used to justify and legitimize realist-oriented policy and practice in war.
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    STRATEGIC CHAOS THEORY: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR INTERPRETING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF GLOBAL DISORDER
    (Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, 2025) Băcanu Vasile, Mirela
    This article proposes the concept of ‘strategic chaos’ as an emerging analytical perspective in the study of contemporary international relations. Inspired by chaos theory from the natural sciences and complex systems thinking (Lorenz, Prigogine, Morin), the paper investigates how instability is deliberately cultivated by various state and non-state actors as a geopolitical tool. By integrating ideas from classical theories of international relations (realism, liberalism, constructivism) with elements of complexity theory, the proposed approach outlines a complementary lens to understand phenomena such as frozen conflicts, recurrent crises, information warfare or strategic ambiguity. Case studies on Russia, China, the United States, and other actors such as ISIS or North Korea demonstrate that instability can become a strategic end in itself—not merely a secondary outcome of conflict. The concept of strategic chaos thus brings into focus the possibility that unpredictability and disorder may not only be tolerated but actively exploited in the context of an increasingly fragmented, multipolar, and volatile international system