International Relations tends to rely on concepts that developed on the European continent, obscuring the fact that its history is far less 'international' than one might expect. But in today's global world, who does this ignore and marginalize? And what impact does that have on the discipline's potential to assess world politics? This book explores an Islamic approach to the 'international', showing that Islam can contribute keen insights into how we 'do' IR, and how we might change that practice to be more inclusive, while also highlighting the limits of an 'Islamic International...

International Relations tends to rely on concepts that developed on the European continent, obscuring the fact that its history is far less 'international' than one might expect. But in today's global world, who does this ignore and marginalize? And what impact does that have on the discipline's potential to assess world politics? This book explores an Islamic approach to the 'international', showing that Islam can contribute keen insights into how we 'do' IR, and how we might change that practice to be more inclusive, while also highlighting the limits of an 'Islamic International...

This book is the first to offer a full exploration of the theory of uneven and combined development

This book is the first to offer a full exploration of the theory of uneven and combined development

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...

The collapse of the USSR wrought dramatic changes in Eurasia, both in terms of the structure of state power within the region, and the ways in which Western states and international organisations engaged with it. Analyses of conflict in this region remain rooted in supposed 'global models', often assuming that patterns of state failure are due to resistance to the liberal model of peacebuilding. This book sets out a challenge to these assumptions and framings. It not only questions but resolutely dismisses the notion that the peacebuilding methods favoured by Western states remain the most...

The collapse of the USSR wrought dramatic changes in Eurasia, both in terms of the structure of state power within the region, and the ways in which Western states and international organisations engaged with it. Analyses of conflict in this region remain rooted in supposed 'global models', often assuming that patterns of state failure are due to resistance to the liberal model of peacebuilding. This book sets out a challenge to these assumptions and framings. It not only questions but resolutely dismisses the notion that the peacebuilding methods favoured by Western states remain the most...

First book-length investigation of modern Japanese political thought and IR with a focus on non-western and indigenous Asian practices of IR.

First book-length investigation of modern Japanese political thought and IR with a focus on non-western and indigenous Asian practices of IR.