Más allá de la confrontación: examinando los conflictos relacionales y los espacios de vulnerabilidad en las relaciones internacionales
No. 125 (2026-01-14)Autor/a(es/as)
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Javier Herrán GallegoUniversidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - UNED (España)Identificador ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6437-1090
Resumen
Objetivo/contexto: desarrollar un marco analítico orientado al estudio de los procesos de subjetivación en escenarios que, aun en ausencia de conflicto, constituyen espacios decisivos para la propia gestación de configuraciones conflictivas. El estudio parte de un diálogo entre distintas tradiciones teóricas —occidentales y sinocéntricas— que aborda la naturaleza y las causas del conflicto internacional. A partir de esta discusión, se introduce la noción de conflicto relacional como una categoría diferenciada pero complementaria respecto de las concepciones convencionales del conflicto. Metodología: sobre una base conceptual heterogénea, se aplica un enfoque metodológico hermenéutico y se proponen los espacios de vulnerabilidad como zonas liminares situadas entre el riesgo y el conflicto —convencional y relacional— caracterizadas por una construcción subjetiva de la incertidumbre. Conclusiones: los espacios de vulnerabilidad constituyen un marco teórico sólido para la categorización y análisis de diversos patrones de conducta y mecanismos de filtrado frente a un mismo fenómeno, lo que permite ampliar la noción de vulnerabilidad hacia múltiples dimensiones. Originalidad: examina el papel de la relacionalidad china en su aproximación al conflicto y pone de relieve la existencia de espacios de significación plural que, si bien se manifiestan en la realidad empírica, carecen de una conceptualización teórica adecuada dentro de la disciplina.
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