Setting Boundaries : Can International Society Exclude ‘ ‘ Rogue States ’ ’ ?
Setting Boundaries : Can International Society Exclude ‘ ‘ Rogue States ’ ’ ?
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设定界限：国际社会能否排除“流氓国家”？
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2006
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E. Saunders
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本文讨论了冷战后政治学家相对较少关注的一个突出问题：所谓无赖国家在国际政治中的地位。伊拉克战争使大西洋两岸在“流氓国家”是否存在以及如何对待他们的问题上的分歧具体化，但这场辩论在整个20世纪90年代都很激烈。本文将国际关系理论引入“无赖国家”问题，但这是一个理论上的扭曲。它认为，我们必须首先确定这些国家据称被排除在外的实体，以及谁可以制定成员资格标准。如果我们规定国际体系包括所有国家，那么国际社会就可以根据各种共同的观念来定义，国际社会的许多实现都是可能的。强大的国家可能会试图充当“规范企业家”，促进他们的想法作为国际社会的基础。但国家，包括大国，可能真的对这个社会的基础和边界有分歧。因此，不仅要认真对待权力和共享思想，而且要描述共享思想的起源和局限性。对共享思想的限制可以被称为“有限的主体间性”。本文利用“流氓国家”的争论和对抗伊拉克的跨大西洋危机来强调这些理论问题。
This essay addresses a prominent post-Cold War issue to which political scientists have paid relatively little attention: the status of so-called rogue states in international politics. The war in Iraq crystallized transatlantic disagreement over whether ‘‘rogue states’’ exist and how they should be treated, but the debate raged throughout the 1990s. This essay brings international relations theory to bear on the issue of ‘‘rogue states,’’ but it does so with a theoretical twist. It argues that we must first identify the entity from which these states are allegedly excluded as well as who gets to set the membership criteria. If we stipulate that the international system includes all states, then international society can be defined according to various shared ideas and many realizations of international society are possible. Powerful states may try to act as ‘‘norm entrepreneurs,’’ promoting their ideas as the basis of international society. But states, including great powers, may genuinely disagree over the basis and boundaries of this society. It is thus vital not only to take both power and shared ideas seriously, but also to describe the origins and limits of shared ideas. The limits to shared ideas can be termed ‘‘bounded intersubjectivity.’’ This essay uses the debate over ‘‘rogue states’’ and the transatlantic crisis over confronting Iraq to underscore these theoretical issues.