Best 2015 international relations books
Rather than providing a complete account of the emergence of IR in the non-Western world, the authors opted for a more practical strategy: they explain the reason's for the Western-centeredness of the discipline, discuss its foundational myth, and provide an overview of many non-Western thinkers who can also be considered the founding figures of the International Relations discipline, such as al-Afghani, the founder.īook review: “Non-Western International Relations Theory” by Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan (eds.) Browse Amazon’s Best Sellers of 2012 (So Far) list to find the most popular products throughout the year based on sales, updated hourly. View the Top 100 best sellers for each year, in Amazon Books, Kindle eBooks, Music, MP3 Songs and Video Games. The authors seek "not to displace existing Western-dominated IR knowledge in itself, but only to displace its hegemony by placing it into a broader global context" (p.303). Given that "IR has been largely built on the assumption that Western history and Western political theory are world history and world political theory (p.3)", and that "IR was designed institutionally, theoretically and in terms of its view of history by and for the core countries" (p.317), how to best go about such a challenging enterprise? Discover Amazon’s Top 100 best-selling products in 2012, 2011, 2010 and beyond. In what is certainly one of the most ambitions International Relations books written over the past years, "The Making of Global International Relations", by Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, is addressing a task both urgent and monumental: to systematically put IR thinking outside the West into the larger context of the discipline's evolution. Oliver Stuenkel (2020) The making of global international relations: origins and evolution of IR at its centenary, Global Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2020.1789484 This book is a major contribution to the debate about philosophy and method in history and international relations.