本丛书第一批先行选入了一些经典文献选读性质的国外优秀教材，也包括美国大学中的一些知名国际关系学教员所编著的教材，内容主要在国际关系理论方面，也包括国际政治经济学和比较政治学方面的优秀教材。它们皆可称为原文中的精品，值得研读和收藏，不仅如此，由于它们本身在国外的大学课堂里都是应用较广的教材和读物，所以特别适合作为我国国际关系与世界政治专业大学教学中的参考读物，甚至可以直接作为以外文授课的课堂教材。在每本书的前面，我们都邀请国内比较权威的专家学者撰写了精彩的导论，以指导读者更好地阅读和使用这些文献。

本书为国际关系学经典名著，建构主义国际关系流派代表作之一。在本书中，16位重要学者将社会学与安全研究进行了创新性的融合，从规范、认同的角度出发集中分析了世界政治中的安全议题，对现实主义和自由主义的学术观点进行了评析和发展，成为后来建构主义国际关系学的“里程碑”。

Preface

1. Introduction: Alternative Perspectives on National Security

 Peter J. Katzenstein

 Why Traditional National Security Issues?

 Existing Analytical Perspectives

 Cultural-Institutional Context and Political Identity

 Why Bother?

2. Norms, Identity, and Culture in National Security

 Ronald L. Jepperson, Alexander Wendt, and Peter J. Katzenstein

 Analytical Context

 Theoretical Perspectives

 Arguments

 Methodological and Metatheoretic Matters

 Extension and Conclusion

PART 1. Norms and National Security

 3. Status, Norms, and the Proliferation of Conventional Weapons:

An Institutional Theory Approach

Dana P. Eyre and Mark C. Suchman

Standard Explanations for the Proliferation of Weaponry

An Alternative Perspective: Obligatory Action and an

Institutional Theory of Weapons Proliferation

Hypotheses

Research Design, Data, and Methods of Analysis

Results

 4. Norms and Deterrence: The Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Taboos

Richard Price and Nina Tannenwald

The Social Construction of Deterrence

The Chemical Weapons Taboo

The Non-use of Nuclear Weapons

Norms, Constructivism, and Explanation

 5. Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention

Martha Finnemore

Using Norms to Understand International Politics

Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century

The Expansion of "Humanity" and Sovereignty

Humanitarian Intervention Since 1945

 6. Culture and French Military Doctrine Before World WarII

Hizabeth Kier

Alternative Explanations

The Cultural Roots of Doctrinal Decisions

The Cultural Roots of French Doctrine

 7. Cultural Realism and Strategy in Maoist China

Alastair lain Johnston

Why China?

Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues

The Maoist Central Paradigm

Strategic Preference Rankings

Chinese Conflict Behavior

Problems of Analysis

PART 2. Identity and National Security

 8. Identity, Norms, and National Security: The Soviet Foreign Policy

Revolution and the End of the Cold War

Robert G. Herman

Realist and Liberal Explanations

The Empirical Case

Back to the Future?

 9. Norms, Identity, and National Security in Germany and Japan

Thomas U. Berger

Deficiencies of Structural Accounts

The Concept of Political-Military Culture

The Origins of the New Political-Military Cultures

The Evolution of the Two Political-Military Cultures

The Evolution of German and Japanese Security Policies

 10. Collective Identity in a Democratic Community: The Case of NATO

Thomas Risse-Kappen

The Puzzle

Theorizing About Alliances

A Liberal Interpretation of the Transatlantic Security Community Conclusions: How Unique Is NATO?

 11. Identity and Alliances in the Middle East

Michael N. Barnett

Identity and Alliance Formation

Identity and Alliances in Arab Politics

U.S.-Israeli Relations

PART 3. Implications and Conclusions

 12. Norms, Identity, and Their Limits: A Theoretical Reprise

Paul Kowert and Jeffrey Legro

How Norms Matter

The Sources of Norms

Challenges in the Study of Norms

 13. Conclusion: National Security in a Changing World

Peter J. Katzenstein

Realism and Liberalism

Summary and Extensions

Going Beyond Traditional National Security Studies

America in a Changing World

Index