今天，终于把Social Evolution of International Politics：From 8000BC to the Future《国际政治的社会进化:公元前8000年到未来》交给了出版社（Oxford University Press）。

 

此时此刻，没有太多的豪言壮语，只有短暂的轻松。

 

记得2005年在社科院给同学们上课时候，夸下海口，10年四本书。迄今为止写了三本（尽管只有这一本是我计划之中的），大致应该可以完成，不会让自己成为笑柄。

 

我相信，在我的有生之年，很多人会比我获得更多的金钱和荣誉。

而我却主要想获得“ a place in history (most likely, after I am gone)”。

至少，我不想写那些会让自己的后人觉得过于羞愧的东西。

这是一种价值判断，无法辩论。

 

“Those who do most to advance the boundaries of knowledge seldom care much
about the possession of wealth for its own sake.” (Alfred Marshall [1920] 1982, 4)

 

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以下是这本书的目录

Social Evolution of International Politics:

From 8000 B. C. to the Future 

 

To Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  

Shiping Tang

Fudan University, Shanghai, China 

 

“One hundred [fifty] years without Darwinism are enough.”--Hermann. J. Muller, 1959

 

“Give Darwin his due.” --Philip Kitcher, 2003

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Preface

List of Figures

List of Tables

 

Part I: Preparing the Ground

Introduction: Why an Evolutionary Approach toward IR?

I. The Puzzle: “Great Debates” and Their Irresolution

II. Plan of the Book

III. Key Definitions

 

Chapter One: From Biological Evolution to Social Evolution

Introduction

I. Some Preliminaries about Biological Evolution

II. Social Evolution as a Phenomenon

III. Social Evolution as a Paradigm: Core Principles

IV. What Is Not a Social Evolutionary Approach?

V. A Critique of Existing Evolutionary Theorizing in IR

Concluding Remarks

 

Part II: The Systemic Transformation of International Politics

Chapter Two. Paradise Lost and Paradigm Gained: The Making of the Offensive Realism World

Introduction

I. A Brief Critique of Existing Explanations

II. Eden and its Unraveling: The Theory

III. Making the Offensive Realism World: General Evidences

IV. Making the Offensive Realism World: Evidences from Subsystems

V. War Makes States/Societies/Us…and States/Societies/We Make War

VI. Paradigm Gained: The Coming of Offensive Realism Doctrine

Summary and Conclusion

 

Chapter Three. From the Offensive Realism World to a Defensive Realism World

Introduction

I. The Offensive versus Defensive Debate

II. Mearsheimer to Jervis: the Fundamental Mechanism

III. Mearsheimer to Jervis: three Auxiliary Mechanisms

Concluding Remarks

 

Chapter Four. A More Rule-based International System Unfolding

Introduction

I. Toward a New Approach toward International Institutions

II. Three Roads of Institutionalizing Regional Peace

III. Resolving Existing Debates on International Institutions

IV. Reorienting Institutionalism in International Relations

V: “World State” as an Impossible and Dangerous Utopia

Toward a Better but always Imperfect and thus Open International Society

 

Part III. Implications and Conclusion

Chapter Five: International System as an Evolutionary System

Introduction

I. (International) System, not (International) Structure

II. Structure alone Dictates Little

III. System upon States: Five Channels

Concluding Remarks: Down with Structuralism(s)!

 

Conclusion

I. Social Evolution and IR as an Evolutionary Science

II. Policy Implications: Security-seeking, past, present, and future

 

Appendix I. Evidences from Ethnographic Anthropology

Appendix II. Supplementary Tables for Chapter 2

Appendix III. The Coming of Warfare in Secondary Subsystems

Name Index

Subject Index