Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered
Subtitle: The Pre-Modern Politics of Gongsun Long
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781137493200
Subjects: China, politics and government; China, foreign relations, 1949-
Description: This study offers a critique of international relations from the perspective of eminent pre-modern Chinese thinker Gongsun Long. Shedding new light on the interconnected epistemological, ontological, and political dimensions of his thought, Shih and Yu consider a pressing question of our time: how to conceptualize political order in the globalized contemporary world. Gongsun Long's approach in many ways prefigures postmodern thinking, and his writings inspire critical reflections on globalization.