PIERRE P. LIZÉE is Chancellor's Research Chair in Global Politics at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He has held research and teaching posts at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and at McGill University, Canada. He has also written Peace, Power, and Resistance in Cambodia: Global Governance and the Failure of International Conflict Resolution (2000).

• Introduction: Understanding the Post-Western World PART I: HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT GLOBAL POLITICS?: UNIVERSALS IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Competing Universals: Realism Competing Universals: Liberalism Searching for the Particular: After Constructivism PART II: WHAT DO WE OVERLOOK?: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE NON-WESTERN WORLD Violence, Rationality, and the State Politics, Economics, and Self-Identity The Construction of Difference in International Affairs PART III: WHAT NOW?: REINVENTING INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FOR THE POST-WESTERN WORLD Reinventing Realism: Power and Violence in the Post-Western World Reinventing Liberalism: Values and Change in the Post-Western World The Way Forward: Searching for New Universals in Global Politics Conclusion

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