國際政治過程論 小考 = An Essay on the Process of International Politics

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Most of the international political theories are based upon the premise that the national-actors have maxmizing behavioral patterns. The value-maximizing drive is, therefore, the reason behind the notions of national actors, and accordingly, this maxmizing drive creates the problem of scarcity, the existence of conflict (competition), and the necessity of allocation in the international scene.
But international system lacks a central authority, and lacks the means to force a speedy and equitable settlement of dispute among national actors.
International political action occurs when national actors dispute about the distribution of things considered valuable. Then, an international political allocation is sought through consensus among them. International political system, therefore, will be identified as a set of interactions, abstracted from the totality of international social behavior, through which values are allocated by consensus for an international society, among national actors.
International political systems have a common basic identity as system. That is, all the systems have maintained their basic identity of fundamental life process as a system continuing through time. It is by a way of homeostatic equilibrium that makes the system permit to persist. Homeostatic equilibrium of system, that is, system persistence implies that when a system is subjected to the disturbances which affects the performance of its identifying function, some of its variables will be displaced but its basic identity of fundamental life process performs. This tendency is what enables systems theory to deal with the process and the structure of change. Thus, the international political system like living systems, may be seen as a "responding" and "self-regulating" system by life process.
The very core of international political system consists of the self-regulation mechanism which automatically regulates the behavior of the national actors within the system. Therefore, the self-regulating mechanism allows international political system to change, correct and readjust its processes and structures in the face of activity which threatens to disrupt its own activity. The operation of international self-regulating mechanism does not depend upon the conscious decision of any one national actor or group of actors to bring it about. Rather, the system's self-regulating behavior is the unintended consequence of the interplay of the national actor's maximizing behavior, that is, feedback process (the existence of automatic regulative homeostatic devices).
Thus the self-regulating process is dependent upon the interaction of these maximizing national actors.
But the essential feedback function is a central condition for self-regulating international political system.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序論
• Ⅱ. 國際政治體系의 槪念
• Ⅲ. 同質保存의 均衡과 體系存續
• Ⅳ. 體系의 自律調節過程
• Ⅴ. 結論
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