| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 國際政治研究所 === 101 === The starting point of Andrew Linklater’s theory is the distinction of men and citizens. His purpose is to build an International Political Theory which aims to achieve human emancipation. In the process of building the theory, he applied the historical sociology which is different from the main stream. Linklater emphasized the importance of idea factors and regarded the change and conflict between ideas and institutions as the power source which promote the human history developing into higher degree of freedom. He calls it “Critical Historical Sociology.” Hence the purposes of this article are as follow: first, to clarify the importance and location of historical sociology in Linklater’s theory; second, to compare Critical Historical Sociology with the main stream; finally, through study the two important research topics of Linklater-the transformation of political community and the harm conventions, to conclude the contributions and inadequacies of Critical Historical Sociology.
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