国际关系的退化机制分析:一种解释框架

An Analysis of the Regression Mechanism of IR:An Interpretation Framework

本文采用理性主义方法研究一个建构主义问题,关注国际关系中广泛存在的退化现象。在借鉴一些间接研究成果基础上,揉合理性主义和建构主义两种认识论,跨越结构和过程、体系和单元两个层次,提出一个链条式的国际关系退化机制分析框架。这个链条包括身份吻合度、有效支持度和时间维度三个环节,由于行为体的新旧身份不可能完全吻合,有效支持度是决定进化和退化的关键。支持从根本上说是政治参与问题,退化的症结在于大量行为体游离于体系之外,或者体系内行为体没有采取支持行为。

The paper attempts to employ a rationalist method to study an constructivist issue,focusing on the widespread phenomenon of regression in IR.By referring to some indirect research findings and integrating rationalism and constructivism,the paper proposes a chain analytical framework of the progression/regression mechanism in international relations,covering researches of both structure and process,and system and unit.Three links are included in the chain,namely,congruence degree between identities,effective support degree among actors,and temporal dimension of structural evolution.Since it is impossible to have the actor＇s old and new identities to be completely identical,the effectiveness of support functions as the critical factor that determines progression or regression of international relations.The paper holds that support is in essence a matter of political participation.The crux of regression in IR lies either in alienation of a large number of actors from the system,or in the possibility that at a crucial time actors within the system do not behave supportively.