TITLE:
On the Relationship between “Paradigm” and “International Politics”—Centered on “The Clash of Civilizations and the Reconstruction of the World Order”
AUTHORS:
Xiaosheng Sun, Bozhang Chen
KEYWORDS:
Paradigm, Theory, International Politics, Huntington, Clash of Civilizations
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.6,
June
28,
2022
ABSTRACT: Regarding the research of international political
issues, one of the most important ways to innovate the research is the research
of “paradigm construction”, and in essence, international political research is
a kind of paradigm construction research.
And because of the disciplinary nature of social science, paradigms have
differences in explanatory power. The construction of a paradigm can only be a
research perspective, so a paradigm that is as perfect as possible can only explain most international political
issues. In the final analysis, a paradigm can only be a partial view of the entire
international political issue. However, in
order to pursue the lenient explanatory power of a paradigm, scholars
can only sacrifice the explanation of some international political phenomena, and finally form a simplified
international political paradigm (theory). Therefore, when scholars
construct paradigm models of international politics, they do not consider a
paradigm that covers all explanations, but a paradigm with as broad an
explanatory power as possible. Therefore, the interpretation of international
political phenomena can start from a variety of paradigms, in order to grasp
the truth of international political issues as much as possible. Only when the
existing international political paradigm cannot explain the relevant international
political phenomenon or the explanatory ability is weakened, the innovation of
the international political theory will be produced with the improvement of the
new old paradigm and the construction of the new paradigm. The purpose of this
paper is to explore the relationship between
a “paradigm” and “international politics”, in order to solve the current
academic problems of international political theory innovation and
international political research methods and related problems.