Thinking international relations differently edited by Arlene B. Tickner and David L. Blaney.

Thinking international relations differently

The discipline of international relations (IR) is ironically not at all international. This book illustrates the diversity and variation in IR around the world. It adopts a thematic structure in which four of the central concerns in IR - the state, security, globalization and secularism/religion

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Blaney, David L., Tickner, Arlene B.( 1964-)
Published: Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, c2012.
Series:Worlding beyond the West
Subjects:
International relations -- > Social aspects
Globalization -- > Social aspects
International relations
Security, International
Globalization
Security, International -- > Social aspects
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: thinking difference
  • 2. Security in the Arab world and Turkey: differently different
  • 3. Aberystwyth, Paris, Copenhagen: the Europeanness of new "schools" of security theory in an American field
  • 4. Security theorizing in China: culture, evolution and social practice
  • 5. No place for theory? security studies in Latin America
  • 6. The state of the African state and politics: ghosts and phantoms in the heart of darkness
  • 7. Contextualizing rule in South Asia
  • 8. The Latin America nation-state and the international
  • 9. Reading the global in the absence of Africa
  • 10. Globalization: a Russian perspective
  • 11. Arab scholars' take on globalization
  • 12. Religion, secularism and the state in Southeast Asia
  • 13. Western secularism and the state in southeast Asia
  • 14. Contrived boundaries, kinship and ubuntu: a (South) African view of "the international"
  • 15. Social science research and engagement in Pakistan

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