Non-Western Theories of International Relations: Conceptualizing World Regional Studies

ISBN-13: 9783319337371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 270 str.

Alexei D. Voskressenski

Opis

This book addresses the problem of World Regional Studies and its components: regional complexes, regional subsystems and global regions. With an increasingly complex international system and the emergence of new actors, it is clear that the conceptual framing within the classical disciplines of IR, Political Theory, International Political Economy or Comparative Politics can no longer fully explain a number of processes originating from a tighter and intricate nexus between local, regional and global dimensions.World Regional Studies explains the emergence of new phenomena in international relations and world politics on a regional and predominantly non-Western regional level. How do non-Western societies react to the transformations of the global order? Is a non-Western democracy possible? Should we discuss the possibilities for the appearance of a non-Western IR theory or a new framework for analyzing de-westernized global development? This study, based on decade-long research and teaching post in World Regional Studies at MGIMO-University and Russian University of Humanitarian Studies (RGGU), seeks to answers these questions.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Challenges to the existing IR system and how they are seen in the IR literature in Western and non-Western segments of the world.- Chapter 2: From the hegemonic unipolar to the multipolar world: structural transformation of the international system and global strategic balance, plus its consequences for the future.- Chapter 3: Appraising the theory of non-Western IR and the other options available.- Chapter 4: What is missing in the Western IR theories: space as a core dimension in World Regional Studies.- Chapter 5: Transformation of the space (1): macro-regionalization and new spatial actors of international relations: international / world / global regions.- Chapter 6: Transformation of the space (2): differentiation within the world space and its consequences for conceptualizing a de-Westernized IR.- Chapter 7: Integration of the space in a complex glocality.- Chapter 8: Fusion of past and future in the space of global regions and regional sub-systems of converging multiple modernities. 

O autorze

Alexei D. Voskressenski is Professor of Comparative Politics and Asian Studies and Dean of the School of Political Affairs, MGIMO University. He earned his PhD and Dr.Pol.Sc. at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies and holds PhD of the University of Manchester. He is founding editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Politics and author of many books.