Zobnin, A.V. International pseudo-consultations in the structures of the Warsaw Treaty Organization

Abstract: The author studies the problem of presence of social and political pseudo-communications in the diplomatic practice of the XX century from the position of neo-institutional approach in political science and international relations. The author provides a brief review of scientific works of Russian and foreign scientists on this topic – V.L.Israelyan, M.A. Khrustalev, G.Raiffa, W. Zartman, L.Rubin. The author provides detailed analysis of the issue of functioning of international pseudo-consultations in consultative and executive bodies of a number of international intergovernmental organizations (such as the NATO, the WPO, OSCE, SCO, CIS). The article contains an example of finding and structural analysis of an international pseudoconsultation in the Political Consultative Committee of the WPO. The author comes to a conclusion on the presence of causal link between pseudo-consultation mechanism, manipulation with the rules of collective decision-making and individual preferences of the participants of international pseudo-consultations. The conclusion may serve as proof of mutual dependency of procedural and personal factors in social and political communications of international intergovernmental organizations. The established dependency may serve as a vivid example of limitations to the freedom of choice of participants of consultation procedures.

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