Critical Theory and the Inter-Paradigm Debate
Critical Theory and the Inter-Paradigm Debate
复制标题
批判理论与范式间的争论
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
1987
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Markj. Hoffman
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Markj. Hoffman
国际关系作为一门学科正处于一个重要的十字路口。自第一次世界大战后国际关系作为一门学科成立以来，国际关系经历了一系列的“辩论”，其结果是，在其发展过程中，作为这些辩论的结果，国际关系理论一直在不断变化和修改。在经历了两次世界大战期间的唯心主义和现实主义之争，20世纪60年代的现实主义和行为主义之争，到库恩对“范式”思想的发展和20世纪70年代初的后行为革命的补充影响，以及国际政治经济学和新马克思主义的兴起之后，在20世纪70年代末和80年代初，国际关系已经达到了班克斯称之为“范式间争论”的地步。一方面，由于该学科中方法、问题和疑问的多样性，它使该学科变得令人兴奋和活跃，为以前被认为超出该学科界限的研究创造了机会。另一方面，由于缺乏对这一主题的商定核心，导致了混乱和一定程度的知识不安全。
International Relations as an academic discipline is at a major crossroads. Since it was first constituted as an academic discipline in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, International Relations has moved through a series of ‘debates’ with the result that in the course of its development, and as a consequence of these debates, International Relations theory has been undergoing constant change and modification. After moving through the debate between Idealism and Realism in the inter–war period, between Realism and Behaviouralism in the Great Debate of the 1960s, through to the complementary impact of Kuhn’s development of the idea of ‘paradigms’ and the post-Behavioural revolution of the early 1970s and on to the rise of International Political Economy and neo-Marxist, Structuralist dependency theory in the late 1970s and early 1980s, International Relations has arrived at a point that Banks has termed the ‘inter-paradigm debate’.1 The effect of this evolutionary process is contradictory. On the one hand, it makes the discipline exciting and alive because of the diversity of approaches, issues and questions within it, creating opportunities for research which would previously have been deemed to be outside the boundaries of the discipline. On the other hand, the lack of an agreed core to the subject has lead to confusion and a degree of intellectual insecurity.