China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships

ISBN-13: 9781138390508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 286 str.

Chih-Yu Shih

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