Control power as a special case of protean power: thoughts on Peter Katzenstein and Lucia Seybert's Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Theory Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI:10.1017/S1752971920000226

E. Adler

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Abstract

Abstract Human experience of control is an illusion; all forms of power are a special, transient, and unstable case of protean power. Taking risks is governed by critical uncertainty less because of our lack of perfect knowledge than because the world is physically and socially indeterminate. Power, thus, lies not only in agents' potential to dominate each other, but also in acting in concert to turn propensities into reality. Radical uncertainty is, therefore, not necessarily bad news. Whether protean power endangers or protects humanity depends less on calculating risks than on agents practicing common humanity values. I revise Katzenstein's and Seybert's concepts accordingly and illustrate by discussing Artificial Intelligence's challenges to humanity.

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控制力作为一种特殊的变异性权力——对彼得·卡岑斯坦和露西娅·塞伯特《变异性权力:探索世界政治中的不确定性和不可预测性》的思考

抽象的人类控制经验是一种幻觉;所有形式的权力都是一种特殊的、短暂的、不稳定的多变的权力。冒险受到关键不确定性的支配，与其说是因为我们缺乏完美的知识，不如说是因为世界在物理和社会上是不确定的。因此，权力不仅存在于行动者相互支配的潜力中，也存在于将倾向转化为现实的一致行动中。因此，极端的不确定性未必是坏消息。千变万化的权力是危害人类还是保护人类，与其说取决于对风险的计算，不如说是取决于执行者践行共同的人类价值观。我相应地修改了卡岑斯坦和塞伯特的概念，并通过讨论人工智能对人类的挑战来说明。

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International Theory Multiple-

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