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Before the “West”: Recovering the Forgotten Foundations of Global Order

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2022

Amitav Acharya*
Affiliation:
American Universityaacharya@american.edu

Extract

During the past two decades, there have been growing calls for broadening the discipline of international relations (IR) by giving due recognition to the history, culture, ideas, and agency of non-Western states and societies. Several aspects of this trend are noteworthy. First, it originated from the growing dissatisfaction by non-Western scholars with the Western (US and European) dominance of the IR field, a dominance that obscures and marginalizes the past and recent contributions of other societies. As such, the primary voices challenging this dominance have been non-Western scholars, sometimes in collaboration with a few Western counterparts. These include not just scholars of postcolonialism and race, but also some working in the English School and constructivist and non-Western/post-Western traditions.

Type
Book Review Essay
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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