Driving Force, Effect And Feedback:a Research On State Action In International Politics

Inspired by the emerging research trends in the academic circles, and based on the understanding of the core subjects of the discipline, deficiencies in the current western dominant international relations theory, in order to clarify the nature of international relations and its fundamental law of operation and development, this paper argues that we should build an international political theory of state action as the core of the study of the state action and its motives and consequences in the current study of international relations.To implement this idea, the full text is divided into five main chapters:the first is the introduction, which contains five main parts, including the origin of the topic, research significance, core assumptions, the text structure and research methods. This part combed the relevant literature, initially clarified some issues directly related to the topic of this research, mainly answered why state action is under discussion, why and how to build an international political theory of state action, etc.The next three chapters, according to a logical order, respectively studied the driving force of state action, the nature of state action and its mode action, systemic consequences of state action and its feedback and so on, throughout all these studies is the concept of state action in international politics. The first chapter argues that studying the dynamic problems of state action in international politics is very important, because it involves the doubt why international relations was emerging. As a result, logically speaking, it can’t be said that the fundamental driving force of the state action is the international system structure, at the same time it can’t be directly believed that the fundamental driving force of the state action is the pursuit of the state interests, because there is a problem of why state was born, finally, through the historical quest, we found the fundamental driving force of the state action is the human needs as man was the most basic unit of human society. As a living organism, it is human needs that promote the human beings as actors to take a variety of acts resulting in the generation of the state, so the pursuit of national interests as a direct driving force of state action in essence is human needs.Accordingly, the second chapter argues that the state action essentially is the action of human beings, however, not all the human action can be regarded as state action, but only those who were state officials and based on the rule of state bureaucracy to act; their action can be called state action. States mainly use their own resources to play a role in the international system, and the main ways of state action including violence, diploma, economy, propaganda and so on, but are backed by violent means. It has the legitimate monopoly right to use violence as the essential attribute of state; also it is the key that state dominates the international political life.The chapter three argues that it is human needs that promote human action resulting in the generation of the state, state action, and then generation, operation and development of international relations, international relations as a social environment that is different from the natural one. In turn, it affects the state action and whether and to what extent its specific interests goals can be realized. This feedback is reflected mainly by two types of factors, that is, the basic state of the international political system and the structure of the international political system.In summary, this paper concludes that the nature of international relationship is a social relationship, which stems from the needs of humanity as a living organism in order to maintain their own lives. It is constructed by the action of human beings, during which there are three fundamental laws:objective causal laws, purpose—active laws and historical resultant force laws. Although state directly controlled the most powerful means of violence in the human society and directly framed in the overall operation and development of the international relations, still human action is undoubtedly the most fundamental decisive force in the generation, operation and development of the international relations, so future operation and development of the international relations are destined to depend on the cognitive and selective nature of human beings.