Non-Western International Relations Theory

Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Politics at American University, USA. Barry Buzan is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, UK.

• 1. Why is there no Non-Western International Relations Theory: An Introduction Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan 2. Why Is There No Chinese International Relations Theory? Yaqing Qin 3. Why Are There No Non-Western Theories of International Relations? The Case of Japan Takashi Inoguchi 4. Why is There No Non-Western International Relations Theory? Reflections on and from Korea Chaesung Chun 5. Re-Imagining IR in India, Navnita Chadha Behera 6. Southeast Asia: Theory between Modernization and Tradition? Alan Chong 7. Perceiving Indonesian Approaches to International Relations Theory Irman G. Lanti and Leonard C. Sebastian 8. International Relations Theory and the Islamic Worldview Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh 9. World History and the Development of Non-Western IR Theory Barry Buzan and Richard Little 10. Conclusion: On the Possibility of a Non-Western International Relations Theory Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan

"This book adds a critically needed voice that specifies areas of deficiency and methods which may allow for alternative and reasonable disciplinary guidance that can finally address the historical inequity within the study of IR. The authors provide key insights to a problematic theme regarding how to overcome “colonization of the mind” by the limiting and framing scopes of inquiry so as to essentially set an agenda with regard to an entire disciplinary field of academia and its requisite effects." - William J. Jones, Mahidol University International College; Journal of International and Global Studies Volume 4, Number 1, (November 2012).