1st Edition

Critical International Relations Theories in East Asia Relationality, Subjectivity, and Pragmatism

Edited By Kosuke Shimizu Copyright 2019
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

What do we study when we study International Relations (IR)? This book interrogates the meanings of the established ontology and subjectivity embedded in the discourse of "Western" and "non-Western" IR. We are predisposed to see a nation-state as a unified entity, everlasting and moving towards a particular end. This leads us to say, for example, "Japan is threatened by the possible Chinese... Read more

Preface
Introduction (Kosuke Shimizu)



1) What is Missing in the Ongoing Debate over Non-Western IR Theory Building? (Yong-Soo EUN)
2) Appealing to Humane Capitalism as the International Relations of Economics: Comparing Early and Late Globalizing Asia via Tomé Pires’ Suma Oriental (1515) and Mahathirist Thought (1970-2008) (Alan Chong)
3) Indigenization of International Relation Theories in Korea and China: Tails of Two Essentialisms (Jungmin Seo and Hwanbi Lee)
4) Kōanizing IR: Flipping the Logic of Epistemic Violence (L.H.M. Ling)
5) International Relations Concerning Post-Hybridity Dangers and Potentials in Non-Synthetic Cycles (Chih-yu Shih and Josuke Ikeda)
6) Identity, Time, and Language: Nishida Kitaro’s Philosophy and Politics in Non-Western Discourse (Kosuke Shimizu)
7) On the Necessary and Disavowed Subject of History in Postwar "Japan" (Hitomi Koyama)
8) Pacific for Whom: The Ocean in Japan (Atsuko Watanabe)



Index

Biography

Kosuke Shimizu is a professor of the Department of Global Studies and director of Afrasian Research Centre at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan.