Re-imagining International Relations by Barry Buzan

Re-imagining International Relations by Barry Buzan

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 disciplines, encouraging them to bring their own histories, concepts and theories with them. The authors have written this book with the hope of inspiring others to extend these pathways by bringing in a wider array of cultures, and exploring how they thought about and acted in worlds composed of multiple, independent, collective actors.

'Moaning about Euro-centrism is easy, fixing it a lot harderBuzan and Acharya's Re-imagining International Relations is a bold and ambitious contribution to the growing body of path-breaking work looking beyond the West in re-thinking IR theory.' Jason Sharman, Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge.
'Re-imagining International Relations brilliantly challenges taken-for-granted views by examining non-Western theories and practices. Buzan and Acharya's study of diverse civilizations not only shows possible alternatives to understanding international relations but also suggests that ideas and concepts that are often considered as Western innovations have in fact diverse origins. Far from counterfactual speculation, they show how past ideas and processes continue to exert their influence today. In so doing they masterfully demonstrate the value of an historical-civilizational approach.' Hendrik Spruyt, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, and author of The World Imagined
'With Re-imagining International Relations, Acharya and Buzan have added yet another thought-provoking book to efforts of globalising the discipline of International Relations. This book will be a welcome addition to any IR theory class.' Ayşe Zarakol, Reader in International Relations, University of Cambridge
'This short book packs a disproportionately big punch in advancing Global IR. It does this most impressively by, inter alia, showing how many of the concepts of IR that have for so long been assumed to be Western are in fact more genuinely universal given that they found their place in various ways in pre-modern Islam, India and China, sometimes even pre-dating their emergence in the West.' John M. Hobson, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield

Barry Buzan is a Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published and broadcast extensively in the field of international relations. He took his first degree at the University of British Columbia (1968), and his doctorate at the London School of Economics (1973). From 1988 to 2002 he was Project Director at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick. During 1993 he was visiting professor at the International University of Japan, and in 1997-8 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden. He was Chairman of the British International Studies Association 1988-90, Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association 1993-4, and founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee 1994-8. Since 1999 he has been the general coordinator of a project to reconvene the English school of International Relations, and from 2004 he is editor of the European Journal of International Relations. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and in 2001 he was elected as an Academician of the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781009074919
ISBN 10	1009074911
Title	Re-imagining International Relations
Author	Barry Buzan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2021-12-09
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note	Unavailable