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Presents a challenge to international relations scholars to think globally, understanding the field's development in the Global South alongside the traditionally dominant Western approach.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. The world up to 1919: the making of modern international relations; 2. IR up to 1919: laying the foundations; 3. The world 1919-45: still version 1.0 GIS; 4. IR 1919-45: the first founding of the discipline; 5. The world after 1945: the era of the Cold War and decolonization; 6. IR 1945-89: the second founding of the discipline; 7. The world after 1989: 'unipolarity', globalization and the rise of the rest; 8. IR after 1989; 9. The post-Western world order: deep pluralism; 10. Towards global IR.
About the author
Amitav Acharya is Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC. His recent books include Constructing Global Order (Cambridge, 2018) and The End of American World Order (2014). His previous book with Barry Buzan is Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives on and Beyond Asia (2010). He is the recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Scholar Award from ISA's Global South Caucus and the 2018 International Organization Section award.Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor in the London School of Economics and Political Science Department of International Relations, Honorary Professor at Copenhagen, Jilin, and China Foreign Affairs Universities, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His recent books include Global International Society, with Laust Schouenborg (Cambridge, 2018), and The Global Transformation, with George Lawson, (Cambridge, 2015) which won the 2017 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations.
Summary
A deep exploration of the emergence and development of modern international relations (IR) thinking in both the West and the Global South, relating the story of the field systematically to the world politics of the last two centuries. For students and scholars of international relations, particularly IR theory, the history of the discipline, and non-Western approaches.
