International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity
Robbie Shilliam
International Relations, as a discipline, tends to focus upon European and Western canons of modern social and political thought. Alternatively, this book explores the global imperial and colonial context within which knowledge of modernity has been developed.
The chapters sketch out the historical depth and contemporary significance of non-Western thought on modernity, as well as the rich diversity of its individuals, groups, movements and traditions. The contributors theoretically and substantively engage with non-Western thought in ways that refuse to render it exotic to, superfluous to or derivative of the orthodox Western canon of social and political thought. Taken as a ... Read more
This work provides a significant contribution to the field and will be of great interest to all scholars of politics, political theory and international relations theory.
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