Thursday, March 28, 2024

National Responsibilities in International Relations

Three major engines are changing the world we are living. Globalization and regionalization are making countries more and more politically, economically and socially interconnected and interdependent. Many threats have gone transnational and global, well beyond the capacity to resolve of any nations. At the same time, international norms, standards and institutions have emerged to intervene into the relations between rulers and the ruled. These three developments have challenged state control and the Westphalian concept of sovereignty and reciprocity in international relations. Against this backdrop, while sovereignty persists, there has emerged a need for a new approach to the world politics, which gives due attention to the responsibilities of nation-states. There are generally four bases to define responsibilities of a nation-state: (i) commonly-accepted norms, standards, and institutions; (ii) general interest of the international community and legitimate interests of other countries; (iii) international public goods such as the maintenance of international peace and stability and creation of a just and civilized framework for international political and economic cooperation; (iv) global threats such as global warming, pandemics, poverty and starvation, etc.

Vietnam’s policy-makers should be aware of this titanic shift in global politics and change their world outlook and foreign policy along. In this connection, Vietnam should perceive itself more than “a friend and a reliable partner of other countries” but integral part of the international community. Therefore, integration should move beyond the economic front. Besides, as its aggregate strengths grows and its position becomes relatively more important, Vietnam should proactively take on greater international responsibilities within its power to contribute more to the global efforts to maintain international and regional peace and security and create a more just, democratic and civilized structure of global governance.     

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