International Relations and the Problem of Difference

by Inayatullah,Naeem

• ISBN13: 9780415946377
• ISBN10: 0415946379
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This work developed out of the growing sense that International Relations as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are shaped by, the changing structures and processes of the international system. IR has long had little to say about the motivations of individuals, about the interactions of communities, or about the role of identity. Inayatullah and Blaney re-imagine IR as a uniquely placed site for the study of differences. They suggest that IR might be organized explicitly around the exploration of the relation of wholes and parts and sameness and difference.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(18)
Part I: Difference in the Constitution of IR	19	(108)
The Westphalian Deferral	21	(26)
Intimate Indians	47	(46)
Ir and the Inner Life of Modernization Theory	93	(34)
Part II: Studies in Difference and Contemporary IR	127	(92)
IPE as a Culture of Competition	129	(32)
Toward an Ethnological Ipe	161	(26)
Multiple and Overlapping Sovereignties	187	(32)
Epilogue	219	(4)
Notes	223	(12)
References	235	(22)
Index	257