基辛格的世界秩序观:均势、“合法性”与创造力

Henry Kissinger’s View of World Order:Balance of Power,"Legitimacy" and Creativity

世界秩序是基辛格长期关注的核心理论问题。基辛格希望通过对地缘政治均势结构的营造,实现某种主要大国均予以接受的世界秩序框架,从而实现稳定的合法化世界秩序的构建。基辛格强调要充分发挥外交的创造力,强调伟大的政治家要通过引领性创造性方式实现这种秩序构建,特别注重外交谈判的战略策略设计。21世纪初以来,越来越多的新兴力量和发展中世界力量的群体性崛起,传统的美欧强权再也无法主导国际政治的现实力量结构和未来走向。基辛格认为,当前世界秩序面临着源于合法性重新界定和权力均衡变化两种趋势的根本挑战,当今时代政治家们需要去思考世界秩序重建这一根本性问题。这实际上反映了美西方战略家面对西方力量地位结构性衰减和国际格局历史性变迁的一种深层次思考。

World order is the core theoretical issue Kissinger has been concerned about for a long time.Kissinger hopes that through the construction of a geopolitical balance of power structure,a certain world order framework accepted by all major powers will be realized,thereby realizing the construction of a stable and legalized world order.Kissinger emphasizes the need to give full play to the creativity of diplomacy,emphasizing that great statesmen should achieve this kind of order construction through leading and creative ways,paying special attention to the strategic design of diplomatic negotiations.Since the beginning of the 21stcentury,more and more emerging powers and powers in the developing world have risen collectively,and the traditional American and European powers can no longer dominate the actual power structure and future direction of international politics.Kissinger believes that the current world order is facing fundamental challenges stemming from the redefinition of legitimacy and changes in the balance of power.Politicians of the current era need to think about the fundamental issue of rebuilding the world order.In fact,this reflects a deep-seated thinking of American and Western strategists in the face of the structural decline of the Western power status and the historic changes in the international structure.