Thinking International Relations Differently

ISBN-13: 9780415781305 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 368 str.

Arlene B Tickner;Ole Wæver;¬Abar

Opis

The discipline of international relations (IR) is ironically not at all international. The study of international relations is conducted primarily from a specific geopolitical site (the United States) that happens to be the most powerful country in both international affairs and the discipline itself. To a significant degree, this influences the way the discipline sees the world and also how it contributes to policy making and thereby the shape of that world itself. This book is the second volume in a trilogy of titles that tries to put the international back into international relations by showing how international relations knowledge is actually produced around the world. The book illustrates the diversity and variation in IR around the world. It adopts a thematic structure in which four of the central concerns in IR - the state, security, globalization and secularism/religion - are examined in three or four chapters written from different parts of the world. The book makes significant progress in bringing non-Western conceptualizations into the discipline and expanding the definition of what international relations actually means. This is essential reading for anyone who cares about the history, development and future of international relations.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Arlene B. Tickner and David L. Blaney  Section 1: Security  2. Security in the Arab World and Turkey: Differently Different Pinar Bilgin  3. Aberystwyth, Paris, Copenhagen. The Europeanness of New "Schools" of Security Theory in an American Field Ole Wæver  4. Security Theorizing in China: Culture, Evolution and Social Practice  Liu Yongtao  5. No Room for Theory? Security Studies in Latin America  Arlene B. Tickner and Mônica Herz  Section 2: State, Sovereignty and Authority  6. The State of the African State and Politics: Ghosts and Phantoms in the Heart of Darkness Siba Grovogui  7. Contextualizing Rule in South Asia Siddharth Mallavarapu  8. The Latin American Nation-State and the International  Fernando López-Alves  Section 3: Globalization  9. Reading the Global in the Absence of Africa Isaac Kamola  10. Globalization: A Russian Perspective Andrei P. Tsygankov  11. Arab Scholars’ Take on Globalization Wafaa Hasan and Bessma Momani  Section 4:Secularism and Religion  12. Religion, Secularism and the State in Southeast Asia Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid  13. Western Secularisms: Variation in a Doctrine and its Practice Mona Kanwal Sheikh and Ole Wæver  Section 5:The International  14. Contrived Boundaries, Kinship and Ubuntu: A (South) African View of "the International" Karen Smith  15. Social Science Research and Engagement in Pakistan Ayesha Khan

O autorze

Arlene B. Tickner is Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Her main areas of research include IR in non-core settings, Latin American security and Colombian foreign policy. She is the co-editor (with Ole Wæver) of Global Scholarship in International Relations, (2009). 　 David L. Blaney is Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, USA. He works on the social and political theory of IR and IPE and questions of culture and identity. His recent books (both with Naeem Inayatullah) include International Relations and the Problem of Difference (2004) and Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism (2010).