Between Statecraft and Humanism: Diplomacy and Its Forms of Knowledge
Between Statecraft and Humanism: Diplomacy and Its Forms of Knowledge
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治国之道与人文主义之间：外交及其知识形式
DOI：
10.1111/misr.12037
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
C. Constantinou
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作者：
C. Constantinou
外交伴随着人类最高的希望和最深的挫折。复杂的全球问题需要——但可能得不到——深刻的理解、熟练的倡导以及持续的谈判和创新。 Diplomatic method, this article argues, emerges by combining advocacy and reflexivity, and in modernity as dialectic between statecraft and humanism.治国之道目前占主导地位，但人文主义的愿望仍然是相关的，尽管经常受到压制。通过在功能和历史背景下审视外交知识问题——最重要的是通过超越信息和情报收集的视角——本文探讨了人文主义如何成为外交中可用的实践。具体来说，人文主义实践如何激发思考并鼓励知识生产，从而带来外交观点和政策的变化。因此，从业者不仅可以作为政策的被动仆人，而且可以作为追求超越有限技术目标的主动人来与外交联系起来。这不仅增强了自上而下的政策实施实践，而且增强了来自不同地方的自下而上的外交，利用日益全球化的“新常识”来分享见解、定义行动并支持多样化的举措。简而言之，人文主义遗产强调外交作为一种知识实践，追求一系列国家、跨国和后国家目标，协商利益以及社会意义和身份，这鼓励外交重新成为一种生活方式。
Diplomacy is concomitant with humanity's highest hopes and deepest frustrations. Complex global problems demand—but might not receive—deep understanding, skilled advocacy, and sustained negotiation and innovation. Diplomatic method, this article argues, emerges by combining advocacy and reflexivity, and in modernity as dialectic between statecraft and humanism. Statecraft is currently dominant, but humanist aspirations remain pertinent, if often repressed. By examining the issue of diplomatic knowledge in functional and historical contexts—and crucially by looking at it beyond information and intelligence gathering—the article examines how humanism becomes a usable praxis in diplomacy. Specifically, how humanist praxis aspires to provoke thinking and encourage the production of knowledge that can bring about changes in diplomatic perspective and policy. Practitioners can thus connect to diplomacy not merely as passive servants of policy but as active humans pursuing more than restricted technical goals. This enhances not simply a top-down, policy implementation practice, but a bottom-up diplomacy from different places, utilizing the increasingly globalized “new common knowledge” to share insights, define action, and support diverse initiatives. The humanist legacy, in short, highlights diplomacy as a knowledge practice, pursuing a range of national, cross-national, and postnational goals, negotiating interests but also social meaning and identity, something that encourages its revisiting as a mode of living.