China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships

ISBN-13: 9780367730789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 286 str.

Chih-Yu Shih Et Al

Opis

Major IR theories, which stress that actors will inevitably only seek to enhance their own interests, tend to contrive binaries of self and other and ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. By contrast, this book recognizes the general need of all to relate, which they do through various imagined resemblances between them.

Spis treści

Introduction: Relating China to International Relations  Part 1: Balance of Relationships  1. Relationality versus Power Politics  2. Relational Policy of Small States  3. Relational Policy of Major Powers  Part 2: Philosophical Resources  4. Relational Ontology  5. Buddhist State of Nature  6. Cyclical View of History  Part 3. Processes of BoR  7. Cultural Memory  8. Psychological Efficacy  9. Institutional Style  Part 4. Identities of the Theory  10. Plausible Post-Western Theory  11. Plausible Chinese Theory  12. Plausible Western Theory  In Lieu of a Conclusion: Four Caveats

O autorze

Chih-yu Shih, the primary author of this book, teaches international relations theory, anthropology of Knowledge, and cultural studies as National Chair Professor and University Chair Professor at National Taiwan University. Access to his current research—Intellectual History of China and Chinese Studies—can be found at http://www.china-studies.taipei/ Together, his writings on IR theory, intellectual history, and ethnic citizenship challenge familiar social science and humanity categories. His co-authors—Chiung-chiu Huang (National Cheng-chi University), Pichamon Yeophantong (University of New South Wales, Canberra), Raoul Bunskoek (National Taiwan University), Josuke Ikeda (Toyama University), Yih Jye Hwang (Leiden University), Hung-jen Wang (National Cheng-Kung University), Chih-yun Chang (Shanghai Jiaotong University), and Ching-chang Chen (Ryukoku University)—have all published critically on Asia in IR in general and on China, Japan, Taiwan and ASEAN in specific. They have come cross each other through different joint projects involving critical IR, post-Western IR, homegrown IR, global IR, Asian IR and Chinese IR. Their careers include professional posts in India, Germany, Thailand, Japan, the US, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Australia, and China.

Chiung-chiu Huang is Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

Pichamon Yeophantong is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia.

Raoul Bunskoek is a Ph. D candidate in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Josuke Ikeda is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Human Development, University of Toyama, Japan.

Yih-Jye Hwang is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University College, The Netherlands.

Hung-jen Wang is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

Chih-yun Chang is a Research Fellow at the Department of History, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.

Ching-chang Chen is Associate Professor at the Department of Global Studies, Ryokoku University, Japan.