Political paranoia v. political realism: on distinguishing between bogus conspiracy theories and genuine conspiratorial politics
Political paranoia v. political realism: on distinguishing between bogus conspiracy theories and genuine conspiratorial politics
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10.1080/00313220601118751
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发表时间：
2007-02-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Bale, Jeffrey M.
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作者：
Bale, Jeffrey M.
学者和知识分子往往没有足够的注意到阴谋政治的历史和政治重要性，即现实世界的隐蔽和秘密活动。这主要是因为他们很少努力在概念上区分这类活动和虚假的“阴谋论”，前者是国家和国际政治的一个常规特征，如果不是无所不在的话，后者是精心制作的幻想，旨在表明各种邪恶的、有邪恶意图的强大集团在幕后运作，秘密控制着世界事件的进程。贝尔的目的是提供一个明确的分析区分实际的阴谋政治和“阴谋理论”在该术语的贬义，并建议研究方法，适当的调查和分析前者早已可用。在一个充满秘密机构、秘密压力集团、犯罪卡特尔和恐怖主义组织的世界里，学术界再也不能忽视各种类型的真正阴谋活动，这些活动在过去往往具有相当大的历史意义，并可能继续对未来的事件产生影响。
Scholars and intellectuals often fail to pay sufficient attention to the historical and political importance of conspiratorial politics, that is, real-world covert and clandestine activities. This is primarily because they rarely make an effort to distinguish conceptually between such activities, which are a regular if not omnipresent feature of national and international politics, and bogus 'conspiracy theories', elaborate fantasies that purport to show that various sinister, powerful groups with evil intentions, operating behind the scenes, are secretly controlling the course of world events. Bale's purpose is to provide a clear analytical distinction between actual conspiratorial politics and 'conspiracy theories' in the pejorative sense of that term, and to suggest that research methods appropriate to investigating and analysing the former have long been available. In a world full of secret services, surreptitious pressure groups, criminal cartels and terrorist organizations, academics can no longer afford to ignore bona fide conspiratorial activities of various types, which have often had considerable historical significance in the past and are likely to continue to exert an impact on events in the future.