中國國際關係理論的Sinicization：從中國學派到關係理論的秦亞青學思歷程

Abstract

本文以中國國際關係理論家，秦亞青的中國國際關係理論建構歷程為個案，探討中國國際關係的誕生與演變。本文統合英語與華語文獻中，關於中國國際關係理論研究的分析，並運用Sinicization作為文明進程的視角，提出一個可實徵性地觀察、理解、追蹤與解釋，中國國際關係理論生成與演變的理論觀點。本文發現：Sinicization作為一種往返與英語與華語、西方與東方、傳統與現代的知識協商機制，既是一種目的，亦是一種知識策略。它一方面使中國與世界彼此更加相互適應，另一方面主張了一種新舊重組、中西融合的國際關係理論。這一動態演化過程涉及中西方文明遭遇的宏觀情境，以及理論家個人於此背景下的微觀觀念選擇與知識建構。唯有透過文明進程的交織性與演化觀點，才能明確地判斷中國國際關係理論究竟是再生產了，還是重新想像了國際關係。透過文明進程論、思想史的詮釋分析，有助於解明中國國際關係理論的多種目的、功能及作用，從而推進、開拓，包含國際關係、國際思想，與中國研究在內的下一階段研究議程。

Based on the construction of the Chinese International Relations theory (CIRT) by Qin Yaqing, a mainland Chinese IR theorist trained in the U.S., this paper analyses how Qin’s Chinese IR knowledge has shed new light on both of the Chinese International Relations and the studies of International Relations (IR) in terms of the perspective of Sinicization. Sinicization, as Peter Katzenstein defined it, means the civilizational processes and exchanges between and beyond the West and the East in which China and the world try to accommodate each other. Therefore, Sinicization could be how China negotiates how it relates to the world and vice versa. In such a theoretical framework, the evolution of CIRT involves the civilizational encounters, choices, and strategies in which multiple relationality and agencies relate, respond, and emerge. This dissertation finds and argues that only by taking a civilizational, processual, and on-their-own-terms approach on the CIRT can the reproduction and reimagination of it being revealed and studied. The CIRT thus connects and contributes to the studies of IR, International Political Thoughts, and China studies by stimulating new relevant agendas among them.