世界历史的视野与国际关系研究的重建——来自巴里·布赞的挑战

Perspective of World History and Remaking the Study of International Relations: Challenge from Barry Buzan

冷战结束后,西方学术界对国际关系理论进行了深刻的反思和批判,但多数反思和批判只是在新形势下对过去国际关系理论体系的修补和发展,而不是全新意义上的重建。巴里·布赞教授通过对威斯特伐利亚"情结"的成功超越,重新诠释了国际体系在一个宏观和久远的世界历史背景中的演变,从而构建了一个新的国际关系研究框架。巴里·布赞的世界历史视野和多元论的方法论体系向西方主流国际关系理论体系提出了根本的挑战,同时也给中国学者带来了诸多启迪。

With the end of the Cold War, the International Relations Theory, which failed to foresee the collapse of the former Soviet Union, has been investigating profoundly in the West. But most of them were modifying the IR framework rather than remaking it. Professor Barry Buzan achieved it through reconceptulizing the International System and put it into a long view of world history before Westphalia and beyond European experiences. Such he made a fundamental challenge to the dominant International Relations in the West, and brought a number of inspiration to the Chinese academic circle.