International Relations and Non-Western Thought

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 whole the book provides deep insights into the contested nature of a global modernity shaped so fundamentally by Western colonialism and imperialism. Now as ever these insights are desperately needed for a discipline that is so closely implicated in Western foreign policy making and yet retains such a myopic horizon of inquiry. 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. . Language: English