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Worlding Beyond the West


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Historically, the International Relations (IR) discipline has established its boundaries, issues, and theories based upon Western experience and traditions of thought. This series explores the role of geocultural factors, institutions, and academic practices in creating the concepts, epistemologies, and methodologies through which IR knowledge is produced. This entails identifying alternatives for thinking about the "international" that are more in tune with local concerns and traditions outside the West. But it also implies provincializing Western IR and empirically studying the practice of producing IR knowledge at multiple sites within the so-called ‘West’.

We welcome book proposals in areas such as:

  • Critiques of Western-centric scholarship and policy-making.

  • The emergence of new theories and approaches from ‘the periphery’.

  • The challenges for the discipline at large in accommodating its post-Western phase, and the political and ethical dilemmas involved in this.

  • Concrete studies of the results of approaching issues and agendas in ‘the periphery’ with the tools offered by core thinking.

  • Work by scholars from the non-West about local, national, regional or global issues, reflecting on the importance of different perspectives and of geocultural epistemologies.

  • Studies of ‘travelling theory’ – how approaches, concepts and theories get modified, re-casted and translated in different contexts.

  • The meaning and evolution of major concepts in particular regions, such as security thinking, concepts of globalisation and power, understandings of ‘economy’ and ‘development’ or other key categories in particular regions.

  • The sociology of the discipline in different places – with a focus on a country, a region, on specific research communities/schools, subfields, or on specific institutions such as academic associations, journals, foundations or think tanks.

  • Empirical studies of epistemic practices and the conditions of knowledge production in different Western and non-Western locales and sites.

  • Studies of the interaction between different knowledge producers, such as processes of expertise or the dialogue between intellectuals, academics, bureaucrats and policy elites.

Series Editors: Arlene B. Tickner, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, David L. Blaney, Macalester College, USA and Inanna Hamati-Ataya, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Founding Editor: Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Russian Westernizers and Change in International Relations The Promised West

Russian Westernizers and Change in International Relations: The Promised West

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Andrei P. Tsygankov
June 07, 2024

Russian Westernizers and Change in International Relations summarizes the Westernizing trend in Russian thought from the early nineteenth century to the present day. This book looks at Russian thinkers and politicians who have considered Western/European civilization to be superior to others and ...

Russian Realism Defending 'Derzhava' in International Relations

Russian Realism: Defending 'Derzhava' in International Relations

1st Edition

By Andrei P. Tsygankov
September 25, 2023

Russian Realism analyzes Russian contemporary geopolitical thinking, or realism, and explores the notion of Derzhava as the foundation of Russian realism. The author defines Russian realists as all those favoring actions by the Russian state in defense of its interests, including protection of ...

The Kyoto School and International Relations Non-Western Attempts for a New World Order

The Kyoto School and International Relations: Non-Western Attempts for a New World Order

1st Edition

By Kosuke Shimizu
September 25, 2023

The Kyoto School and International Relations explores the Kyoto School’s challenge to transcend the ‘Western’ domination over the ‘rest’ of the world, and the issues this raises for contemporary ‘non-Western’ and ‘Global IR’ literature. Was the support of Kyoto School thinkers inevitable due to ...

The “Russian Idea” in International Relations Civilization and National Distinctiveness

The “Russian Idea” in International Relations: Civilization and National Distinctiveness

1st Edition

By Andrei P. Tsygankov
June 16, 2023

The "Russian Idea" in International Relations identifies different approaches within Russian Civilizational tradition — Russia’s nationally distinctive way of thinking — by situating them within IR literature and connecting them to practices of the country’s international relations. Civilizational ...

Internal Colonialism and International Relations Tracks of Decolonization in Bolivia

Internal Colonialism and International Relations: Tracks of Decolonization in Bolivia

1st Edition

By Ana Carolina Teixeira Delgado
January 09, 2023

This book investigates decolonization as a local process and its connections to international relations, introducing "internal colonialism" as a crucial analytical category for internationalists. Using Bolivia as a case study, the author argues that the reshaping of colonialism and its resistance ...

Globalizing International Theory The Problem with Western IR Theory and How to Overcome It

Globalizing International Theory: The Problem with Western IR Theory and How to Overcome It

1st Edition

Edited By A. Layug, John M. Hobson
September 30, 2022

Globalizing International Theory adds to the literature on non-Western international relations (IR) theory by probing the question of what it means to globalize international theory. The book starts with the premise that international theory is unfinished, incomplete, and homogenous because it ...

Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa: Turning Over a New Leaf

1st Edition

By Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
May 06, 2022

This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century. The author calls upon Africa to turn over a new leaf in the domains of politics, economy, and knowledge as it frees itself from imperial global designs and global coloniality. With...

Intersectional Decoloniality Reimagining International Relations and the Problem of Difference

Intersectional Decoloniality: Reimagining International Relations and the Problem of Difference

1st Edition

By Marcos S. Scauso
April 29, 2022

This book assesses diverse ways to think about “others” while also emphasizing the advantages of decolonial intersectionality. The author analyzes a number of struggles that emerge among Andean indigenous intellectuals, governmental projects, and International Relations scholars from the Global ...

Making Global Knowledge in Local Contexts The Politics of International Relations and Policy Advice in Russia

Making Global Knowledge in Local Contexts: The Politics of International Relations and Policy Advice in Russia

1st Edition

By Katarzyna Kaczmarska
September 30, 2021

This book draws on extensive ethnographic research undertaken in Russia to show how the wider sociopolitical context – the political system, relationship between the state and academia as well as the contours of the public debate – shapes knowledge about international politics and influences ...

NGOs, Knowledge Production and Global Humanist Advocacy The Limits of Expertise

NGOs, Knowledge Production and Global Humanist Advocacy: The Limits of Expertise

1st Edition

By Alistair Markland
September 30, 2021

NGOs, Knowledge Production and Global Humanist Advocacy is an empirically and theoretically rich account of how international non-governmental organisations produce knowledge of and formulate understandings about the world around them.The author applies critical and sociological perspectives to ...

Theory as Ideology in International Relations The Politics of Knowledge

Theory as Ideology in International Relations: The Politics of Knowledge

1st Edition

Edited By Benjamin Martill, Sebastian Schindler
September 30, 2021

Are theoretical tools nothing but political weapons? How can the two be distinguished from each other? What is the ideological role of theories like liberalism, neoliberalism or democratic theory? And how can we study the theories of actors from outside the academic world? This book examines these ...

Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century Living Theories and True Ideas

Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century: Living Theories and True Ideas

1st Edition

Edited By Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Morgan Ndlovu
July 23, 2021

Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century is a ground-breaking work that highlights the resurgence and insurgence of Marxism and decolonization, and the ways in which decolonization and decoloniality are grounded in the contributions of Black Marxism, the Radical Black tradition, and ...

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