彭树智先生的文明自觉论博大精深,内涵丰富。它对国际关系的借鉴意义在于:为世界各国、各民族的自我定位、相互认知提出了新的思路;为各国、各民族如何面对利益差异与分歧提供了新的理念;为各国、各民族如何化解相互冲突乃至战争指出了新的路径。文明自觉论为中国的国际关系学的发展提供了新的理论视野,我国学者应当重视文明自觉论对于构建中国特色国家关系理论体系的重要学术价值。
The theory of civilization consciousness,advanced by Prof. Peng Shuzhi’s,is broad and profound. The guiding significance of this theory from the point of view of international relations can be expressed as follows:putting forward the specific principles and methods for self-orientation and mutual cognition of every country across the world;offering a right direction of foreign policies of every country during times of peace and development;providing a reasonable thinking for every country to deal with its beneficial differences and divergences;as well as pointing out the channels to solve the conflicts and wars for every country. This theory has laid the theoretical foundation for the study of Chinese international relations,and the Chinese scholars can,therefore,on the basis of this theory,construct an international relations theory system with local characteristics.