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The guanxi of relational international theory / Emilian Kavalski.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rethinking Asia and international relationsPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group, 2018Description: vii, 129 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138088788
  • 1138088781
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JZ1306 .K39 2018
Contents:
Introduction : the Columbus syndrome of international relations -- A relational dance or a scripted Concert of Europe? -- The relational turn(s) in the Anglosphere and Sinosphere of international relations -- The guanxi of relationality -- Conclusion : a relational theory of international relations beyond the Eurocentric frame.
Summary: "This book offers a relational theory of International Relations (IR). To show the ways in which the relationality is foreshadowed in IR conversations it makes the following three points: 1) it recovers a mode of IR theorizing as itinerant translation; 2) it deploys the concept and practices of guanxi (employed here as a heuristic device revealing the infinite capacity of international interactions to create and construct multiple worlds) to uncover the outlines of a relational IR theorizing; and 3) it demonstrates that relational theorizing is at the core of projects for worlding IR. By engaging with the phenomenon of relationality, Emilian Kavalski invokes the complexity of possible worlds and demonstrates new possibilities for powerful ethical-political innovations in IR theorizing. Thus, relational IR theorizing emerges as an optic which both acknowledges the agency of 'others' in the context of myriad interpretative intersections of people, powers, and environments (as well as their complex histories, cultures, and agency) and stimulates awareness of the dynamically-intertwined contingencies through which meanings are generated contingently through interactions in communities of practice. The book will have a strong appeal to the broad academic readership in Asian Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations theory and students and scholars of non-/post-Western International Relations and non-/post-Western Political Thought."--Provided by publisher.
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"Routledge Focus"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-116) and index.

Introduction : the Columbus syndrome of international relations -- A relational dance or a scripted Concert of Europe? -- The relational turn(s) in the Anglosphere and Sinosphere of international relations -- The guanxi of relationality -- Conclusion : a relational theory of international relations beyond the Eurocentric frame.

"This book offers a relational theory of International Relations (IR). To show the ways in which the relationality is foreshadowed in IR conversations it makes the following three points: 1) it recovers a mode of IR theorizing as itinerant translation; 2) it deploys the concept and practices of guanxi (employed here as a heuristic device revealing the infinite capacity of international interactions to create and construct multiple worlds) to uncover the outlines of a relational IR theorizing; and 3) it demonstrates that relational theorizing is at the core of projects for worlding IR. By engaging with the phenomenon of relationality, Emilian Kavalski invokes the complexity of possible worlds and demonstrates new possibilities for powerful ethical-political innovations in IR theorizing. Thus, relational IR theorizing emerges as an optic which both acknowledges the agency of 'others' in the context of myriad interpretative intersections of people, powers, and environments (as well as their complex histories, cultures, and agency) and stimulates awareness of the dynamically-intertwined contingencies through which meanings are generated contingently through interactions in communities of practice. The book will have a strong appeal to the broad academic readership in Asian Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations theory and students and scholars of non-/post-Western International Relations and non-/post-Western Political Thought."--Provided by publisher.

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