num_pages: 176
description: Buzan and Acharya challenge the discipline of International Relations to reimagine itself in the light of the thinking about, and practice of, international relations and world order from premodern India, China and the Islamic world. This prequel to their 2019 book, The Making of Global International Relations, takes the story back from the two-century tale of modern IR, to reveal the deep global history of the discipline. It shows the multiple origins and meanings of many concepts thought of as only modern and Western. It opens pathways for the rest of the world into this most Eurocentric of disciplines, encouraging them to bring their own histories, concepts and theories with them. The authors have written this book with the hope of inspiring others to extend these pathways by bringing in a wider array of cultures, and exploring how they thought about and acted in worlds composed of multiple, independent, collective actors.--Contains chapter-length introductions to the thinking on, and practice of, international relations and world order, in Hindu India, and premodern China and the Islamic World--Offers detailed assessments of how many of the main lines of thinking in IR come from different cultural sources, challenging assumptions of their modern, West origins--Shows what IR might look like had it emerged from India, China and Islam, instead of Europe
language: English
title: Re-imagining International Relations : World Orders in the Thought and Practice of Indian, Chinese, and Islamic Civilizations
publisher: Cambridge University Press