What is Universal Reduction

This chapter attempts to examine a particular form of relationship between the phenomena of regionality and globality in the IR field, the “mutual inherence,” which contrasts to much commoner causality or consecutiveness in ontological and temporal senses respectively. The form consists of the two phenomena's co-genesis as to their coming-into-being, co-temporality as to their evolution and co-presence as referential ground of related events. It is apparent in the particular case of the “near-abroad”-“post-bipolarity” relationship, which constitutes the study object here. On the other hand, in pursuit of its aim, this paper needs to deal with the related phenomena and events in their immediate, pre-theoretical, intersubjective appearances rather than through theoretical constructs and their narratives, as they bring serious complications into the study of phenomena and events of a purely intersubjective field.