国际政治经济学刍议

What is True International Political Economies

本文从理论的定义出发 ,逐一分析了现存国际政治经济学理论的各个流派。国际政治经济学是建立一门国际关系的综合理论的重要一步 ,但是其本身的理论建设却很不成熟。本文以为 ,还原理论无法从整体上把握国际体系的特征 ,也就无法提出一个核心变量。还原主义的国际政治经济学只能描述国际体系内政治与经济作用的某一方面 ,而不能解释体系内的国际关系。国际制度理论和世界体系理论的核心变量不够有力 ,都难以成为统一的国际政治经济学。只有结构现实主义的结构概念可以作为国际政治经济学的核心变量 ,而它的作用为霸权稳定理论和结构现实主义所证明。

By examining the concepts, this paper analyzes each branch of existing theories of international political economics and argues that, although IPE is an important step to establish a comprehensive IR theory, its theoretical construction is far from mature. Since Reductionist theory could not catch the whole feature of the international system, it is impossible to provide a core variable. The IPE of Reductionist could explain certain interactions between politics and economics, but not the international relations within the system. In the meantime, both Institutionalism theory and World-system theory could not function as IPE either, for their core variables are not strong enough to provide supports. It is only Structural Realism that could provide the core variable in IPE.