Decolonizing international relations /Branwen Gruffydd Jones

By: Branwen Gruffydd JonesContributor(s): Branwen Gruffydd JonesMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , ©2006Description: xii, 275 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9780742540248Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: International relationsDDC classification: 327.101 JON
Contents:
International relations as the imperial illusion, or, The need to decolonize IR / Julian Saurin -- International relations theory and the hegemony of western conceptions of modernity / Sandra Halperin -- Liberalism, Islam, and international relations / Mustapha Kamal Pasha -- Race, amnesia, and the education of international relations / Sankaran Krishna -- Decolonizing the concept of "good governance" / Antony Anghie -- Dispossession through international law : Iraq in historical and comparative context / James Thuo Gathii -- Beyond the imperial narrative : African political historiography revisited / Alison J. Ayers -- Mind, body, and gut! : elements of a postcolonial human rights discourse / Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui -- Retrieving "other" visions of the future : Sri Aurobindo and the idea of human unity / B.S. Chimni -- Conclusion: Decolonising international relations : imperatives, possibilities and limitations / Branwen Gruffydd Jones.
Summary: The discipline of International Relations (IR) is concerned with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. This book exposes the ways in which IR has consistently ignored questions of colonialism, imperialism, race, slavery, and dispossession in the non-European world.
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International relations as the imperial illusion, or, The need to decolonize IR / Julian Saurin --
International relations theory and the hegemony of western conceptions of modernity / Sandra Halperin --
Liberalism, Islam, and international relations / Mustapha Kamal Pasha --
Race, amnesia, and the education of international relations / Sankaran Krishna --
Decolonizing the concept of "good governance" / Antony Anghie --
Dispossession through international law : Iraq in historical and comparative context / James Thuo Gathii --
Beyond the imperial narrative : African political historiography revisited / Alison J. Ayers --
Mind, body, and gut! : elements of a postcolonial human rights discourse / Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui --
Retrieving "other" visions of the future : Sri Aurobindo and the idea of human unity / B.S. Chimni --
Conclusion: Decolonising international relations : imperatives, possibilities and limitations / Branwen Gruffydd Jones.


The discipline of International Relations (IR) is concerned with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. This book exposes the ways in which IR has consistently ignored questions of colonialism, imperialism, race, slavery, and dispossession in the non-European world.

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