Decolonizing International Relations

Name: Decolonizing International Relations
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ISBN: 9780742540248

ISBN-10: 0742540243

ISBN-13: 9780742540248

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Branwen Gruffydd Jones, Branwen Gruffydd Jones

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The modern discipline of International Relations (IR) is largely an Anglo-American social science. It has been concerned mainly with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. However, this focus can be seen as Eurocentrism. Decolonizing International Relations exposes the ways in which IR has consistently ignored questions of colonialism, imperialism, race, slavery, and dispossession in the non-European world. Critical scholars in IR and international law, concerned with the need to decolonize knowledge, have authored the chapters of this important volume. It will appeal to students and scholars of international…

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List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.04" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Acronyms


Introduction: International Relations, Eurocentrism, and Imperialism




Eurocentric Origins and Limits



International Relations as the Imperial Illusion; or, the Need to Decolonize IR




International Relations Theory and the Hegemony of Western Conceptions of Modernity




Liberalism, Islam, and International Relations




The Colonial and Racial Constitution of the International



Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations




Decolonizing the Concept of "Good Governance"




Dispossession through International Law: Iraq in Historical and Comparative Context




Toward Decolonized Knowledge of the World and the International



Beyond the Imperial Narrative: African Political Historiography Revisited




Mind, Body, and Gut! Elements of a Postcolonial Human Rights Discourse




Retrieving "Other" Visions of the Future: Sri Aurobindo and the Ideal of Human Unity



Conclusion: Imperatives, Possibilities, and Limitations



Bibliography


Index


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