序説 国際政治学のマルチメディア的転回

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  • A Introductory Note: The Multimedia-like Turn of the Study of International Politics
  • The Turn of International Relations Study in the Advent of Multimedia Age
  • マルチメディア時代の国際政治

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The fact that international political theory failed to forecast the collapse of the former Soviet Union shattered the scholars inside and outside of international politics to make doubt that international politics seriously lacks theory. It is a strong blow against the previous effort by theorists of international politics, who are predominantly Americans, to make the body of international political study be more logical-empiricismic and hypothesis-testable.<br>Two incidents have happened in the midst of the serious debates over the relevance of theoretical contribution of this descipline. They are 1) a new insight of the so-called program-science in contrast to the current scientificlaw-governed science which has made profound impact to help shape the present international politics, and 2) the fast dissemination of the multimedia technology. These two incidents are isomorphically inter-related through one thing, namely information. As is well-known among international political scientists, information has deeply dealt with in the body of this decipline, but today's information age that brings about the new program science and the spreading of multimedia is unpresidentedly over-whelming to completely changes our view of international politics. For this reason, I would like to call it as the Multimedia Turn of the Study of International Politics. This turn would bring new looks of the two key concepts, i. e., the concept of the state and the concept of the way in which international politics moves.<br>Up to today, we have treated the sate as an analogy of ourselves, i. e., a human being. However, the resent development of molecular biology found that we are a part of the whole living creatures which are totally commanded by genetic programs. Then, we did nothing but regarded the state as a program-governed entity. This fact theoretically emancipates us from an always-man-analogous mindset and gives freedom that the state should be merely a “set of programs.” This is a strong epistemological understanding of the new program science which is advocated by a theoretical sociologist, Professor Tamito Yoshida.<br>Since the study of international politics has been muich influenced by the modern science which is governed by scientific laws, our causal reasoning of international politics is profoundedly logical-empiricismic. However, as G. Almond once said, what we are describing as international political phenomena is not clock-like but very much clouds-like. A clock works in only one way according to the scientific causal laws, but most social scientific “clouds” move in multiple-ways according to how we perceived clouds. Moreover, what we social scientists deal with are not scientific laws but social institutions which also work in multiple ways. These multiple ways are, according to the program science, exactly the different programs that govern the behavior of ourselves. This is tha same for the behavior of international politics. In my view, the causal structure of the social programs is simple in that: a) the state of social entities is determined by two things, the previous state and a new entries (visual or whatever), and b) the action is soly determined by the current state. I strongly believe that we can reshape the study international politics by folowing this causal reasoning.

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  • 国際政治

    国際政治 1996 (113), 1-7,L5, 1996-12-30

    一般財団法人 日本国際政治学会

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  • CRID
    1390282680310766592
  • NII論文ID
    130004303007
  • DOI
    10.11375/kokusaiseiji1957.113_1
  • ISSN
    18839916
    04542215
  • データソース種別
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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