Universal Law of the Evolution of International Order
摘要
From the analysis of the wider perspective of the philosophical theoretical thoughts on international relations and international order and its evolution, that is wider than the narrow-minded Western-centric thought. It is not non-Western, but more precisely a wider global view that incorporates both Western and non-Western thoughts that make it look more like a global view, gathering the thoughts of Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Morgenthau, Adler, Kissinger, Gilpin, and Allison, as well as Prebisch, Ibn Khaldun, Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Mozi, and ancient concepts like Ma’at and Tianxia, gathering thoughts from almost all continents—the Americas in North and South, Europe, Asia, and Africa—and from the analysis of history that goes beyond Westphalia in a journey to the big bang of the international order from the time of the creation of the first nation-state. I would claim the following findings as universal laws of the nature of international relations and international order: