Globalizing International Relations Scholarship Amidst Divides and Diversity [Hardcover]

This volumes engages with the 'Global(izing) International Relations' debate, which is marked by the emerging tensions between the steadily increasing diversity and persisting dividing lines in today's International Relations (IR) scholarship. Its international cast of scholars draw together a diverse set of theoretical and methodological approaches, and a multitude of case studies focusing on IR scholarship in African and Muslim thought, as well as in countries such as China, Iran, Australia, Russia and Southeast Asian and Latin American regions. The following questions underpin this study: how is IR practiced beyond the West, and which theoretical alternatives are there for Western IR concepts? Fundamentally, what divides today's IR scholarship in light of its geo-epistemological diversity? This volume identifies shortcomings in the existing debate and offers new pathways for future research.

Dedication.- List of Tables and Figures.- List of Abbreviations.- Notes on Contributors.- Preface.- 1. Introduction: Global(izing) International Relations: Studying geo-epistemological Divides and Diversity; Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar and Ingo Peters.- Introduction to Part I: A Divided Discipline: Geo-epistemological Obstacles to a Truly Global IR; Keshia Fredua-Mensah, Alina Kleinn, Ivan Lydkin, Anchalee R?land.- 2 The Self and the Other in IR  Lessons from Anthropology; Alina Kleinn.- 3 A Model of IR Theory Production: Russian Case of Wording; Ivan Lydkin.- 4 Intellectual Gatekeeping  The Meta-theoretical Challenges of Incorporating Africa Into International Relations Theory; Keshia Fredua-Mensah.- 5 Constraining Structures: Why Local IRT in Southeast Asia is Having a Hard Time; Anchalee R?land.- Introduction to Part II: Practicing diversity? IR scholarship beyond the West; Julita Dudziak, Luisa Linlcã