This forum seeks to honor the contributions of a scholar who has greatly influenced international relations (IR) scholarship on transnational relations and constructivist research: Thomas Risse. Best known for his pathbreaking studies on the importance of transnational actors, the power of international norms and ideas in international relations, and the influence of domestic structures on international interactions, his work has significantly contributed to several interrelated research agendas within IR. The forum takes a fresh look at some of his contributions, focusing on assumptions about the nature of non-state actors, the content of human rights, and the evolution of knowledge that underpin his work. Interrogating especially some of the liberal assumptions that have informed these lines of research, we ask: are we still dealing with the same kinds of non-state actors that Thomas Risse and early constructivist research have analyzed? How has the nature of these actors changed, and how has this affected the processes and mechanisms by which they shape transnational politics? To what extent do these changes require different research methodologies? And, finally, which directions for future research on non-state actors, human rights, and constructivism emerge from these discussions?

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论坛：跨国非国家行为者的新视角——Thomas Risse 工作的论坛

该论坛旨在表彰一位对跨国关系和建构主义研究的国际关系 (IR) 学术影响很大的学者的贡献：Thomas Risse。他以关于跨国行为者的重要性、国际规范和国际关系中的国际规范和思想的力量以及国内结构对国际互动的影响的开创性研究而闻名，他的工作为国际关系中的几个相互关联的研究议程做出了重大贡献。该论坛重新审视了他的一些贡献，重点关注关于非国家行为者的性质、人权内容以及支撑他工作的知识演变的假设。我们特别询问了一些为这些研究领域提供信息的自由假设，我们问：我们是否仍在与 Thomas Risse 和早期建构主义研究分析过的相同类型的非国家行为者打交道？这些行为者的性质发生了怎样的变化，又如何影响了他们塑造跨国政治的过程和机制？这些变化在多大程度上需要不同的研究方法？最后，从这些讨论中得出了未来关于非国家行为者、人权和建构主义的哪些研究方向？