Barry Buzan (London School of Economics and Political Science), Amitav Acharya (American University, Washington DC)
Buzan and Acharya challenge the discipline of International Relations to reimagine itself in the light of the thinking about, and practice of, international relations and world order from premodern India, China and the Islamic world. This prequel to their 2019 book, The Making of Global International Relations, takes the story back from the two-century tale of modern IR, to reveal the deep global history of the discipline. It shows the multiple origins and meanings of many concepts thought of as only modern and Western. It opens pathways for the rest of the world into this most Eurocentric of...
Buzan and Acharya challenge the discipline of International Relations to reimagine itself in the light of the thinking about, and practice of, interna...
