Re-imagining International Relations

Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the LSE (formerly Montague Burton Professor); honorary professor at Copenhagen, Jilin, and China Foreign Affairs Universities; a Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas; and a Fellow of the British Academy. Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. He is a Past President of the International Studies Association (ISA) and has won ISA Distinguished Scholar Awards (for contribution to study of International Organization and Non-Western International Relations).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Problems with the exercise; 3. India; 4. China; 5. The Islamic world; 6. Conclusions.

'Moaning about Euro-centrism is easy, fixing it a lot harder. Buzan and Acharya's Re-imagining International Relations is a bold and ambitious contribution to the growing body of path-breaking work looking beyond the West in re-thinking IR theory.' Jason Sharman, Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge.