STEPHEN CHAN is Dean of Humanities and Professor in International Relations and Ethics at the Nottingham Trent University. He has contributed to both Chinese and English language journals and has also co-authored and co-edited books in both languages. - PETER MANDAVILLE is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has published articles in journals and is the author of Reimagining the Umma: Globalisation and the Changing Boundaries of Muslim Politics.

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Within International Relations Itself, A New Culture Rises Up; S.Chan & P.G.Mandaville PART I: ESTABLISHING A DEBATE Western (?) Studies of War Origins; H.Suganami Forget IR Theory; R.Bleiker PART II: ATTEMPTING TO FORM THE DEBATE Seven Types of Ambiguity in Western International Relations Theory and Painful Steps Towards Right Ethics; S.Chan A Story Beyond Telos: Redeeming the Shield of Achilles for a Realism of Rights in IR; S.Chan Stories of Priam and Job, the Slaughter of their Families, and Twenty Theses on the Suggestiveness of Good for the Person of International Relations; S.Chan PART III: THE INCLINATION OF MIDDLE EASTERN CIVILIZATION Can a Declined Civilization be Reconstructed? Islamic Civilization or Civilized Islam?; M.Mozaffari An Islamic Perspective on Non-Alignment: Iranian Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice; H.A.Sadri PART IV: THE ZEN OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS East-West Stories of War and Peace: Neorealist Claims in Light of Ancient Chinese Philosophy; R.Bleiker Selling Culture: Ancient Chinese Conceptions of 'The Other' in Legends; Q.Cao Zen Master's Story and an Anatomy of International Relations Theory; X.Huang BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Has Chinese International Relations Progressed?; W.Yi Index