Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations

ISBN-13: 9783030849405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 285 str.

Samantha Cooke

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Samantha Cooke

Section 1: Internationalising International Relations Theory

2. Decentralising Europe: Harnessing alternative theories of IR

Tareq Sydiq & Maria Ketzmerick

3. Reorienting Theory: Latin American perspectives on International Relations

Karolina Baraniak

4. Foreign Policy Analysis: Engagements outside of the West

Chris Featherstone

5. Reimagining the Global Order: China in history and theory

Calvin Xin Liu

Section 2: Decentralising the West: Redefining Key Concepts in IR

6. An Asian Theory of Democracy

Olivia Cheung

7. Understanding People and the State: A Liberal and Neo-Confucian comparison

William Barclay

8. Decolonising Empowerment in Africa: Illustration as a tool

Chesney McOmber

Section 3: Changing Frameworks: Re-imagining Political Issues

9. Theorising Emotions in IR: A Maghrebi perspective on inter-state rivalry and the failure of regional integration

Yasmine Zarhloule

10. Gendered Activism and Political Participation: A Latin American perspective

Emanuela Buscemi

11. Jihadi Terrorism and Hybrid Security Threats in Asia: Lessons from Pakistan

Mudassir Farooqi

12. Moving Beyond Global Hierarchies: Is a synthesis possible?

Evren Altinkas

O autorze

Samantha Cooke is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics at the University of Gloucestershire. Her work explores the relationship between secularism, the individual and the state in the Middle East North Africa region.

Blurb

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.

Samantha Cooke is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics at the University of Gloucestershire. Her work explores the relationship between secularism, the individual and the state in the Middle East North Africa region.