Advaita as a Global International Relations Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138497740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 170 str.

Deepshikha Shahi

Opis

This book uses the monist schema of ‘subject-object merger’ in the ancient Indian philosophy of Advaita to establish an alternative epistemological-methodological tool that reimagines the complex realities of contemporary international politics.

Spis treści

Introduction. 1 Advaita in International Relations: A Philosophical Restoration. 2 Reality, Appearance and Unreality of International Politics: An Advaitic Review. 3 Temporality and Spatiality of International Relations: An Advaitic Reconfiguration. 4 The Advaitic Theory of International Relations: Reconciling Dualism and Monism in the Pursuit of the ‘Global’. Conclusion

O autorze

Deepshikha Shahi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, India. Recently she was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research (Käte Hamburger-Kolleg), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She has also been a Research Affiliate with International Democracy Watch (Italy), Transnational Institute (Netherlands), Torino World Affairs Institute (Italy), Institute of International Affairs (Italy), and Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (India). She had earlier worked as a technical proposal writer for the Society of Afghan Women in Engineering and Construction (Afghanistan).