Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Why is there no non-Western international relations theory?: An introduction; 2 Why is there no Chinese international relations theory?; 3 Why are there no non-Western theories of international relations?: The case of Japan; 4 Why is there no non-Western international relations theory?: Reflections on and from Korea; 5 Re-imagining IR in India; 6 Southeast Asia: Theory between modernization and tradition?; 7 Perceiving Indonesian approaches to international relations theory
Summary
Introduces non-Western IR traditions to a Western IR audience, and challenges the dominance of Western theory. This book challenges criticisms that IR theory is Western-focused and therefore misrepresents much of world history by introducing the reader to non-Western traditions, literature and histories relevant to how IR is conceptualised