英文摘要 |
The 2008 global financial crisis has resulted in a possible tectonic shift in the world order. For realists in IR scholarship, since U.S. hegemonic status is highly related to its material powers, economic downturn sure will have a negative impact on U.S. influence around the world and on the global liberal order. However, neo-liberal institutionalists maintain that even the possible challengers to U.S. status are benefiting from the liberal international order, and therefore the current order would remain the same. This paper sides with the neo-liberal view that the U.S. would continue to be challenged and the world order contested, but international institutions will still play a significant role in the maintenance of the liberal order. The mechanism of Six-Party Talks is a case in point to understand how states with divergent national interests would try to cooperate based on the cost-benefit analysis in the institutional framework, while international institutions need to leave room for adaptation. |