How does an approach towards transitional justice produce preconditions for a country’s international action, enabling certain policies and practices in the immediate neighborhood and international society at large? This article unpacks ontological security-seeking as a generic social mechanism in international politics which allows to productively conceptualize the connection between a state’s transitional justice and foreign policies. Going beyond the dichotomy of transitional justice compliance and non-compliance by gauging the role of states’ subjective sense of self in driving their behavior, I develop an analytical framework to explain how state ontological security-seeking relates to major transitions and consequent state identity disjuncture, the ensuing politics of truth and justice-seeking, and its international resonance in framing and executing particular foreign policies. I offer a typology of the international consequences of states’ transitional justice politics, distinguishing between reflective and mnemonical security-oriented approaches, spawning cooperative and conflictual foreign policy behavior, respectively. The empirical purchase of the purported nexus is illustrated with the example of post-Soviet Russia’s limited politics of accountability towards the repressions of its antecedent regime and its increasingly self-assertive and confrontational stance in contemporary international politics.

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转型正义与外交政策的纽带：国家本体论安全寻求的低效因果

过渡时期司法的方法如何为一个国家的国际行动创造先决条件，从而在邻近地区和整个国际社会实现某些政策和做法？本文将本体论安全寻求作为国际政治中的一种通用社会机制展开，它允许有效地概念化国家过渡正义与外交政策之间的联系。通过衡量国家主观自我意识在驱动其行为中的作用，超越了过渡正义遵守和不遵守的二分法，我开发了一个分析框架来解释国家本体安全寻求如何与重大转变和随之而来的国家身份脱节有关，随之而来的真相和寻求正义的政治，及其在制定和执行特定外交政策方面的国际共鸣。我提供了国家过渡正义政治的国际后果的类型，区分了反思性和记忆性的安全导向方法，分别产生了合作和冲突的外交政策行为。后苏联时期俄罗斯对其前任政权的镇压及其在当代国际政治中日益自信和对抗的立场的有限责任政治的例子说明了对所谓关系的实证购买。分别产生合作和冲突的外交政策行为。后苏联时期俄罗斯对其前任政权的镇压及其在当代国际政治中日益自信和对抗的立场的有限责任政治的例子说明了对所谓关系的实证购买。分别产生合作和冲突的外交政策行为。后苏联时期俄罗斯对其前任政权的镇压及其在当代国际政治中日益自信和对抗的立场的有限责任政治的例子说明了对所谓关系的实证购买。