Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations: Ongoing Debates and Sociological Realities (Worlding Beyond the West)

This edited volume offers arguably the first systemic and critical assessment of the debates about and contestations to the construction of a putative Chinese School of IR as sociological realities in the context of China’s rapid rise to a global power status. Contributors to this volume scrutinize a particular approach to worlding beyond the West as a conscious effort to produce alternative knowledge in an increasingly globalized discipline of IR. Collectively, they grapple with the pitfalls and implications of such intellectual creativity drawing upon local traditions and concerns, knowledge claims, and indigenous sources for the global production of knowledge of IR. They also consider critically how such assertions of Chinese voices and articulation of their ambition for theoretical innovation from the disciplinary margins contribute to the emergence of a Global IR as a truly inclusive discipline that recognizes its multiple and diverse foundations. Reflecting the varied perspectives of both the active participants in the Chinese School of IR debates within China and the observers and critics outside China, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of IR theory, Non-Western IR and Chinese Studies. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: the making of Chinese international theory? PART I Ongoing debates 1 What’s in a name? A critical interrogation of the “Chinese School of IR” 2 The “Chinese School” debate: personal reflections 3 Why is there no Chinese IR theory? A cultural perspective 4 The rise of China and Chinese IR theories: practice and theory-building 5 Debating the Chinese School of IR: a reflective review from Taiwan 6 Mapping the world from a Chinese perspective? The debate on constructing an IR theory with Chinese characteristics PART II Towards sociological realities 7 The English and Chinese Schools of International Relations: comparisons and lessons 8 Navigating the core-periphery structures of “global” IR: dialogues and audiences for the Chinese School as traveling theory 9 The Tsinghua Approach and the future direction of Chinese International Relations research 10 Balance of relationship and the Chinese School of IR: being simultaneously Confucian, post-Western and post-hegemonic 11 Constructing a Chinese School of IR as sociological reality: intellectual engagement and knowledge production Conclusion: the Chinese School of IR as an intellectual project – a critical assessment Bibliography Index This edited volume provides a critical assessment of current theoretical contestations in the Chinese International Relations (IR) epistemic community and imaginative and innovative production of IR scholarship in the context of China’s rapid rise to a global power status. Edited By Yongjin Zhang And Teng-chi Chang. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.