What Is at Stake in Building “Non-Western” International Relations Theory? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Is at Stake in Building “Non-Western” International Relations Theory? write by Yong-Soo Eun. This book was released on 2018-01-12. What Is at Stake in Building “Non-Western” International Relations Theory? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. International Relations (IR) as a discipline is often deemed to be “too Western” centric. It has been argued that much of mainstream IR theory is “simply an abstraction of Western history.” In this respect, many IR scholars have called for “broadening” the theoretical horizon of IR while problematising the Western parochialism of the discipline, and it is increasingly acknowledged that IR needs to embrace a wider range of histories, experiences, and theoretical perspectives, particularly those outside of the West. However, despite such a meaningful debate over broadening the theoretical and practical horizons of IR, several critical questions remain unclear and under-explored. For example, does IR need to embrace pluralism? If so, how much? To what extent, and in what sense, is IR parochial? Should IR promote dialogue across theoretical and spatial divides? If so, how? Yong-Soo Eun addresses these questions. He undertakes a literature review and an empirical analysis of the extent to which the field has actually become diverse and pluralistic. This investigation considers diversity beyond the current limited focus on the geographical origins of theory. Yong-Soo also draws attention to the mechanisms and processes of knowledge production and transmission in IR. More importantly, he addresses what is probably the most acute issue associated with the “non-Western” IR theory-building enterprise; namely, fragmentation and dialogue. In conclusion, Yong-Soo notes that the role of unsettling the present hierarchical structure of the discipline falls to reflexive individual agents. He argues that in order for their agential power to be more fully harnessed in the opening up of IR, critical “self”-reflection and “collective” empathy and collaboration among marginalised scholars are all essential.
Non-Western International Relations Theory
Non-Western International Relations Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Non-Western International Relations Theory write by Amitav Acharya. This book was released on 2009-12-22. Non-Western International Relations Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduces non-Western IR traditions to a Western IR audience, and challenges the dominance of Western theory. This book challenges criticisms that IR theory is Western-focused and therefore misrepresents much of world history by introducing the reader to non-Western traditions, literature and histories relevant to how IR is conceptualised.
Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations
Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations write by Yongjin Zhang. This book was released on 2016-06-10. Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume offers arguably the first systemic and critical assessment of the debates about and contestations to the construction of a putative Chinese School of IR as sociological realities in the context of China’s rapid rise to a global power status. Contributors to this volume scrutinize a particular approach to worlding beyond the West as a conscious effort to produce alternative knowledge in an increasingly globalized discipline of IR. Collectively, they grapple with the pitfalls and implications of such intellectual creativity drawing upon local traditions and concerns, knowledge claims, and indigenous sources for the global production of knowledge of IR. They also consider critically how such assertions of Chinese voices and articulation of their ambition for theoretical innovation from the disciplinary margins contribute to the emergence of a Global IR as a truly inclusive discipline that recognizes its multiple and diverse foundations. Reflecting the varied perspectives of both the active participants in the Chinese School of IR debates within China and the observers and critics outside China, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of IR theory, Non-Western IR and Chinese Studies.
Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations
Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations write by Samantha Cooke. This book was released on 2022-01-28. Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book seeks to reposition international relations (IR) theory by providing insights into non-Western concepts and theories. By engaging with understandings of power, identity, the state and the individual from a range of states outside of the Western hemisphere, the contributors to this book introduce new methods for understanding aspects of IR in context considerate ways. Engagements with Western theories and cases highlight how we need to reposition traditional understandings to allow non-Western approaches to IR develop alongside and inform their Western counterparts. Moreover, the book reinforces the need to move beyond the traditionally used Western-centric lenses without removing them completely, instead it advocates a harmonisation between them to reduce generalisations across the local, state and regional levels.
Critical Approaches to International Relations
Critical Approaches to International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Approaches to International Relations write by . This book was released on 2021-11-29. Critical Approaches to International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critical Approaches to International Relations: Philosophical Foundations and Current Debates covers the most influential approaches within critical IR scholarship with a particular focus on historical heritage and philosophical roots they built upon and current directions of research they propose.
