战略叙事展演与秩序地位竞争:中小国家的领导力构建与领导模式演变

Strategic Narrative Performativity and Order Position Competition:The Leadership Construction and Leadership Patterns Evolution of Small and Medium-Sized States

中小国家为何可以构建以及如何构建领导力?文章以东盟为中心展开的区域合作实践为例,发现以战略叙事展演为主要表现形式的秩序地位竞争是中小国家在区域合作实践中构建领导力并推动领导模式演变的核心机制。印尼、新加坡与越南先后通过“抗御力”“经济一体化”“团结东盟成员”的战略叙事展演向其他域内国家证明其对地区需求的识别,以此进行秩序地位竞争与领导力构建,使区域合作实践呈现域内强国领导、二元合作领导与多元合作领导的变化。中小国家能否在区域合作实践中成功构建领导力,与其战略叙事展演能否匹配体系压力形塑的地区需求并得到域内其他中小国家支持、其战略叙事竞争能否经受其他中小国家的挑战有关。文章为理解中小国家随着体系压力及地区需求变化调整其区域合作实践提供了理论解释,也为最大限度维护与中小国家的合作进程提供了实证依据。

Considering the case of regional cooperation practice centered around ASEAN,this article finds that the order position competition,mainly manifested in strategic narrative performativity,is the core mechanism by which small and medium-sized states construct leadership and drive the evolution of leadership patterns in regional cooperation practice.Indonesia,Singapore,and Vietnam have successively demonstrated leadership through strategic narrative performativities of“resistance”“economic integration”“uniting AESAN members”in response to regional demands,competing for order position and constructing leadership.This competition and the construction of leadership manifest as variations in leadership patterns,which include leadership by a regional power,binary leadership cooperation,and multi-lateral leadership cooperation.This article provides a theoretical explanation for how small and medium-sized states adjust their regional cooperation practice in response to changes in system pressures and regional needs and offers empirical evidence in support of maintaining cooperation processes with small and medium-sized states.