国家间信任的生成:进程导向的社会网络分析

信任是影响社会行为体互动的重要变量,但现有国际关系领域的信任研究大多注重经验分析,一般的理论探讨也常常忽视国家间信任的生成问题。本文就现有研究的主要路径进行了梳理和评介,并尝试从社会关系网络的角度建构一个国家间信任生成的研究框架。这一框架沿袭了进程建构主义的基本思路,主要观点为:嵌入在国际社会网络中的信任来源于国家间关系,以关系为本位的网络形塑了信任,信任反过来强化或削弱关系网络;在信任建构的进程中,信任规范得以产生、扩散和内化,进而影响国家的属性和行为;但由于关系网络本身是动态性的,特别是相互关系中存在不对称依赖,这使得信任具有社会资本的分配资源功能。

The Establishment of Trust between States:Applying Process Oriented Social Network Analysis

Trust is an important variable impacting the interactions between societal actors. Current research on trust in the field of international relations focuses primarily on empirical analysis,while the available theoretical explorations of the concept generally neglect to consider the roots of trust. This essay reviews and classifies current research on trust,and on the basis of social network analysis,attempts to conceptualize a framework for researching how trust is established. This framework follows the sa...