TY - BOOK AU - Qin, Yaqing AU - Qin, Yaqing, TI - A Relational Theory of World Politics SN - 9781316634257 U1 - 327.101 QIN PY - 2018/// CY - USA PB - : Cambridge University Press KW - Political Science KW - International relations KW - World politics KW - Multiculturalism KW - Constructivism (Philosophy) N1 - Part I. Culture and Social Theory. Social theory and the multicultural world -- Theoretical hard core -- Culture and theoretical innovation -- Individualistic rationality and mainstream IR theory -- Part II. Relation and Relationality. A world of relations -- Meta-relationship and the zhongyong dialectics -- The logic of relationality -- Part III. Power, Cooperation, and Governance. Power and relation -- Cooperation in a relational world -- Governance : rule, rules, and relations N2 - Drawing on Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions, this book offers a ground breaking reinterpretation of world politics from Yaqing Qin, one of China's leading scholars of international relations. Qin has pioneered the study of constructivism in China and developed a variant of this approach, arguing that culture defined in terms of background knowledge nurtures social theory and enables theoretical ER -