Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations: Ongoing Debates and Sociological Realities
Yongjin Zhang, "Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations: Ongoing Debates and Sociological Realities "
English | ISBN: 1138910198 | 2016 | 276 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1138910198 | 2016 | 276 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This edited volume offers arguably the first systemic and critical assessment of the debates about and contestations to the construction of a putative Chinese School of IR as sociological realities in the context of China’s rapid rise to a global power status.
Contributors to this volume scrutinize a particular approach to worlding beyond the West as a conscious effort to produce alternative knowledge in an increasingly globalized discipline of IR. Collectively, they grapple with the pitfalls and implications of such intellectual creativity drawing upon local traditions and concerns, knowledge claims, and indigenous sources for the global production of knowledge of IR. They also consider critically how such assertions of Chinese voices and articulation of their ambition for theoretical innovation from the disciplinary margins contribute to the emergence of a Global IR as a truly inclusive discipline that recognizes its multiple and diverse foundations.
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