The Zen of International Relations

The new millennium can only be a time of true globalization if different histories and systems of understanding the world are appreciated. The authors unveil significant studies to do with epistemological debates in International Relations, and give detailed middle and far-eastern examples of how different cultures have used story-telling as a means of understanding what is outside and around. Especially provocative is the Chinese idea of the West as an 'Other', as atypical and, indeed, inscrutable, to the extent of not needing scrutiny at all.

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ROLAND BLEIKER Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, University of Queensland QING CAO Doctoral Candidate, Nottingham Trent University XIAOMING HUANG Lecturer in East Asian Politics, School of Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University, Washington, New Zealand MEDHI MOZAFFARI Professor of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark HOUMAN A. SADRI Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Central Florida HIDEMI SUGANAMI Professor, Philosophy of International Relations, School of Politics, Keele University, England WANG YI Current Affairs Producer, BBC World Service, London and Visiting Fellow, Department of International Studies, Nottingham Trent University

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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