理解19世纪全球转型的一种视角

A Perspective on Global Transformation in the 19th Century

《全球转型:历史、现代性与国际关系的形成》属于一本讨论现代国际关系以及国际关系学科起源的学术著作。两位作者认为,现代国际关系和国际关系学科都是全球现代性革命的产物和表现,其源头就在于漫长的19世纪(1776~1919)的全球转型。这本书也是从跨学科研究的角度诠释和理解19世纪全球转型的三个方面,即工业化、理性国家的构建以及"进步的"意识形态。从西方和非西方的不同角度来审视19世纪的全球转型,可能会导致很不一样的历史叙事。至于该书作者所说的全球转型的第三个阶段(去中心化的全球主义)是否已经到来,我们只能拭目以待。

Global Transformation:History,Modernity and the Making of International Relations are an academic work devoted to discussing the origins of modern international relations and the discipline of international relations.Barry Buzan and George Lawson,who are the co-authors of the academic work,believe that modern international relations and the discipline of international relations are the products and manifestations of the revolution of global modernity.Its origins can be traced back to the global transformation extending over the 19 th century(from 1776 to 1919).This book also provides an interdisciplinary approach to interpreting the three aspects of the global transformation in the 19 th century,namely industrialization,the formation of the rational state,and"progressive"ideology.The interpretation of the global transformation in the 19 th century from the western and non-western perspectives may lead to a highly different historical narrative.It still remains to be seen whether the third stage of global transformation(decentred globalism),which is mentioned by the two authors,has arrived.