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Globalizing International Theory The Problem with Western IR Theory and How to Overcome It
Preface: Thickening International Theory or Shrinking the Shagreen Skin?
Inanna Hamati-Ataya
Acknowledgments
1. On the Road Toward a Globalized International Theory
A. Layug and John M. Hobson
Part 1. Racist/Eurocentric Foundations of IR, c.1850–2020: Why IR’s Conception of the International is Provincial and Thin
2. Beyond a ‘More International’ International Relations
Peter Marcus Kristensen and Arlene B. Tickner
3. Un-veiling the Racist Foundations of Modern Realist and Liberal IR Theory
John M. Hobson
Part 2. Problematizing International Theory: How and Why ‘Bringing the Non-Western World In’ Overcomes the Thin Eurocentric Conception of the International
4. Challenging the Illusion of Theoretical ‘Internationalness’
Karen Smith
5. Being International and/or Global?
Zeynep Gülşah Çapan
6. On the Logic of Non-Western Theoretical Argument
A. Layug
7. Identity, Knowledge, Dialogue and the International
Richard Ned Lebow
Part 3. Globalizing International Theory: Constructing a Non-Eurocentric Thick Conception of the International
8. Ethno-Culturalism in World History: Race, Identity and 'the Global'
Joseph Leigh and Christopher Murray
9. Pluriversality in Islamic Political Thought
Faiz Sheikh
10. International or Not, Being Human is Being ‘Global’!
Deepshikha Shahi
11. Indigenous Disruptions: How Indigenous Self-Determination Practices Can Deepen and Expand International Theory
Sheryl Lightfoot
12. International Theory and Critique in Unusual Places: From Lusotropicalism to Anticolonial Poetics
Branwen Gruffydd Jones
Part 4. Conclusion: Reflections on Globalizing International Theory
13. Thick/Thin as Multifaceted Metaphor
David L. Blaney
Biography
A. Layug is a PhD Candidate in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia; research associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, USA; and an associate at the Center for Global Knowledge Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests include international theory, international security, global strategic thought/culture, global political theory, global intellectual history, theories of world order, international relations of the Global South, US and China’s Grand Strategies, Islam, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and Philippine politics and foreign/security relations.
John M. Hobson is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests comprise the critique of Eurocentrism in international relations/international political economy with an emphasis on connected global historical sociologies.
