International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity

by Shilliam; Robbie

• ISBN13: 9780415577724
• ISBN10: 0415577721
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136903526
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-20
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

The purpose of the book is to use a set of geo-culturally diverse investigations in order to sketch out, on the grounds of IR, the theoretical and substantive contours of an engagement with non-Western thought that refuses to approach this body of thought as either exotic to, or derivative of, the orthodox Western canon. In fine, the book highlights and explores the global , rather than European or Western context within which knowledge of modernity has been developed. In this respect, the core assumption that frames the book is that colonialism and imperialism have always been co-constitutive of processes of capitalist development and/or the modern territorial re-organization of political communities. At a minimum, globalization is not an escape from this historical relationship, but a re-ordering ' and possibly intensification - of it. The retrieval for IR of this global colonial and imperial context to the knowledge production of modernity might help to provide deeper insights into the racial, religious, and cultural dimensions of a modernity shaped so fundamentally by colonialism and Western expansionism, insights that are right now desperately needed for a discipline so closely implicated in Western foreign policy making.

Author Biography

Robbie Shilliam is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington. He is currently working on the interface between the anti-colonial struggles of the indigenous Pacific and those of the Black Americas. He is author of German Thought and International Relations (Palgrave, 2009) and co-editor of Silencing Human Rights (Palgrave, 2008).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Non-Western thought and international relations	p. 1
The challenge	p. 1
Organization of the volume	p. 4
The perilous but unavoidable terrain of the non-West	p. 12
Introduction	p. 12
The inadequacy of Western thought	p. 12
The perils of representing the non-West	p. 15
Reorientation towards the non-West	p. 19
The West viewed from elsewhere	p. 21
Conclusion	p. 24
Colonial conditions	p. 27
On colonial modernity: civilization versus sovereignty in Cuba, c. 1840	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
Civilization and colonialism	p. 34
ôCivilizedö nationhood versus sovereignty	p. 37
The Atlantic space of colonial modernity	p. 43
Anti-racism and emancipation in the thought and practice of Cabral, Neto, Mondlane and Machel	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
Cosmopolitanism in IR theory	p. 50
Anti-racism and internationalism in the thought and practice of Neto, Cabral, Mondlane and Machel	p. 52
The emergence of connected struggles and shared consciousness	p. 53
Anti-racism and internationalism	p. 56
Conclusion	p. 61
Voices from the ôJewish colonyö: sovereignty, power, secularization, and the outside within	p. 64
Introduction	p. 64
ôIndigenous colonistsö	p. 67
Power, state, and sovereignty in Spinoza and Mendelssohn	p. 73
Sovereignty and secularization in Mendelssohn and Heine	p. 79
Contentious modernity	p. 82
Cultural contexts	p. 85
International relations of modernity in Sayyid Qutb's thoughts on sovereignty: the notion of democratic participation in the Islamic canon	p. 87
Introduction	p. 87
Modernity: challenges and Muslim responses	p. 88
Qutb's response	p. 93
Conclusion	p. 106
Decoding political Islam: uneven and combined development and Ali Shariati's political thought	p. 108
Introduction	p. 108
International relations of/and non-Western political thought	p. 109
The politico-historical context of the emergence of political Islam in Iran	p. 112
Ali Shariati: the ascetic ideologue of social revolution	p. 115
Conclusion	p. 121
Beyond Orientalism and ôreverse Orientalismö: through the looking glass of Japanese humanism	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
Orientalism and reverse Orientalism in modern Japan	p. 127
Uchimura Kanzo: departure from Orientalism and ôreverse Orientalismö	p. 129
Yanaihara Tadao: the principle of autonomy as an internationally legitimated norm	p. 132
Conclusion	p. 136
Culture in contemporary IR theory: the Chinese provocation	p. 139
Introduction	p. 139
IR theory with ôChinese characteristicsö	p. 140
Theory under siege: IR theory in Chinese perspective	p. 149
Beyond the nation-state	p. 157
Alternative sources of cosmopolitanism: nationalism, universalism and Créoliteé in Francophone Caribbean thought	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
Haiti, from revolution to indigenism	p. 163
The American occupation: race and the new nationalism	p. 166
Négritude, Antillanité and Créolité in the French Caribbean	p. 170
Conclusion	p. 175
The internationalist nationalist: pursuing an ethical modernity with Jawaharlal Nehru	p. 178
Introduction	p. 178
Against narrow nationalism	p. 182
An ethical modernity	p. 185
Towards a world community	p. 190
Conclusion	p. 195
Radical anti-colonial thought, anti-colonial internationalism and the politics of human solidarities	p. 197
Introduction	p. 197
Early twentieth-century anti-colonial thought: the International African Service Bureau	p. 200
The second moment: Bandung and non-alignment	p. 205
Manley and Nyerere: the NIEO	p. 207
Conclusion	p. 211
Reflections	p. 215
Untimely reflections	p. 217
Appendix
Working on non-Western perspectives in both theory and practice: an interview with Christopher LaMonica	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 265
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