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The Construction of Error-Tolerant IR Theory: Unification of Three Mainstream IR Theories
ZHOU Zhifa, ZHANG Qier, JIN Ling, WANG Yudong
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2025.01.001
Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
Error-tolerant IR (international relation) theory is constructed on the base of error-tolerant powers paradigm and error-tolerant economics. Error-tolerant powers paradigm takes the integration between trial and error and anarchy as the starting point of IR theory and upholds that the power to trial and error is an original power, for which states compete. So the core concept of realism should be the original power to trial and error; error-tolerant economics argues that liberal IR theory enables hegemonic powers to compete for their original power to trial and error in an implicit way. Error-tolerant powers paradigm regards that states who truly control original powers to trial and error can define identities and create shared knowledge, which is the core of constructivism. Besides taking the original power to trial and error as the core concept, error-tolerant IR theory can unify three major schools of realism, liberalism, and constructivism by relative right-doing and trial-and-error capabilities, and corresponding costs as endogenous drives.
error-tolerant powers paradigm, error-tolerant economics, anarchy, power to trial and error
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