“关系转向”视域下的符号影响力与东盟中心地位的构建

The Symbolic Influence under the“RelationalTurn”and the Construction of ASEAN’s Centrality

近年来,国际关系理论出现了“关系转向”,国内外学者向西方主流理论仅从资源维度理解权力发起挑战,将权力的内涵扩展至关系维度。不同于西方的因果性关系,中国学者从中国本土文化出发,以阴阳关系为元关系,从情感性关系角度理解权力,提出了关系性权力。作为关系性权力的符号影响力可以为东盟中心地位的构建与存续提供学理解释。符号影响力的定义是:资源弱势方通过关系网络中的符号(如机制、规范、话语等)对作用国进行的软性且有限的约束,促使作用国重新评估利益得失,逐步接受并认可这种影响,做出改变行为形成符号认同的一种关系性权力,而符号认同又为符号影响力提供了新的动力。中国应继续支持东盟发挥符号影响力,推动其外溢至双边乃至全球层面。

In recent years,there has been a“relational turn”in the theory of international relations.Scholars at home and abroad challenge the western mainstream theories which understand power only from the resource dimension,and they expand the connotation of power to the relational dimension.Different from the causal relationship in the west,Chinese scholars start from the local Chinese culture and take the relationship between yin and yang as the meta relationship.Understanding power from the perspective of emotional relationship,they propose relational power.Symbolic influence as a relational power can provide a doctrinal explanation for the construction and survival of ASEAN Centrality.The symbolic influence is the soft and limited constraints imposed on the acting country by the weaker one through the symbols(such as regimes,norms,discourses,etc.).This kind of influence makes changes to form symbolic identity,which provides a new impetus for the better symbolic influence.China ought to continue to support ASEAN in exerting its symbolic influence and promote its spillover to the bilateral and even global level.