ABSTRACT It has become expected of policymakers, pundits, and scholars to refer to a whole raft of dilemmas – from the economic downturn to climate change – as complex. The complexity of these challenges intimates a pattern of interactions marked by sharp discontinuities and exponential transformations triggered by incremental changes. How can one act ethically and politically in such a turbulent environment? Drawing on Complexity Thinking (CT), this article emphasizes the radical relationality of global life, which contests the Eurocentrism and anthropocentrism of International Relations (IR). The proposition is that the fundamental rift in IR’s inquiry is not merely about the divide between the domestic (inside) and the international (outside) as mainstream orthodoxies aver, but about the very context (around) in which such schisms are located and performed. The relational ethics of such a “complexified” outlook critique the atomistic individualism dominating IR and reimagine the international as a dynamic space for dialogical learning, which promises a world that is less hegemonic, more democratic, and equitable.

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内部/外部和周围：复杂性和全球生活的关系伦理

摘要 政策制定者、专家和学者认为，从经济衰退到气候变化的一系列困境是复杂的。这些挑战的复杂性暗示了一种以急剧不连续性和由增量变化引发的指数转换为特征的交互模式。在这样一个动荡的环境中，一个人如何在道德和政治上采取行动？本文借鉴复杂性思维（CT），强调全球生活的激进关系，它与国际关系（IR）的欧洲中心主义和人类中心主义相抗衡。这个命题是，IR 调查中的根本分歧不仅是关于国内（内部）和国际（外部）之间的分歧，就像主流正统一样，但关于这种分裂所在和执行的环境（周围）。这种“复杂”观点的关系伦理批判了主导国际关系的原子主义个人主义，并将国际重新想象为对话学习的动态空间，它承诺一个不那么霸权、更加民主和公平的世界。