![]() ![]() ![]() The authors seek "not to displace existing Western-dominated IR knowledge in itself, but only to displace its hegemony by placing it into a broader global context" (p.303). Given that "IR has been largely built on the assumption that Western history and Western political theory are world history and world political theory (p.3)", and that "IR was designed institutionally, theoretically and in terms of its view of history by and for the core countries" (p.317), how to best go about such a challenging enterprise? In what is certainly one of the most ambitions International Relations books written over the past years, "The Making of Global International Relations", by Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, is addressing a task both urgent and monumental: to systematically put IR thinking outside the West into the larger context of the discipline's evolution. Oliver Stuenkel (2020) The making of global international relations: origins and evolution of IR at its centenary, Global Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2020.1789484 ![]()
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