Re-Writing International Relations: History and Theory Beyond Eurocentrism in Turkey

ISBN-13: 9781783487837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 128 str.

Zeynep Gulsah Capan

Opis

The histories, theories and sociologies of the field of International Relations have been unable to overcome their Westcentrism. They have even reproduced it by continuing to present a linear and bounded story. This book tells a different story, challenging disciplinary and theoretical boundaries to create a connected and global IR. The first section explores the field of IR as a problematic unit that already assumes a coloniality of power. It questions the existence of fields of study and the borders between them by examining the permeability between history and IR, and highlighting how Eurocentric assumptions about world politics are reproduced in the different fields . The second section of the book focuses on theoretical boundaries, by examining what happens when Eurocentric theories travel to other settings in order to re-imagine a field that is not based in the West. In both sections the example of Turkey is used to provide examples of how agency, resistance, and acceptance of Eurocentrism might underline connections and breaks rather than impose a linearity to the story of IR."