Globalizing International Relations

Dedication.- List of Tables and Figures.- List of Abbreviations.- Notes on Contributors.- Preface.- 1. Introduction: Global(izing) International Relations: Studying geo-epistemological Divides and Diversity; Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar and Ingo Peters.- Introduction to Part I: A Divided Discipline: Geo-epistemological Obstacles to a Truly Global IR; Keshia Fredua-Mensah, Alina Kleinn, Ivan Lydkin, Anchalee Rüland.- 2 The Self and the Other in IR - Lessons from Anthropology; Alina Kleinn.- 3 A Model of IR Theory Production: Russian Case of Wording; Ivan Lydkin.- 4 Intellectual Gatekeeping - The Meta-theoretical Challenges of Incorporating Africa Into International Relations Theory; Keshia Fredua-Mensah.- 5 Constraining Structures: Why Local IRT in Southeast Asia is Having a Hard Time; Anchalee Rüland.- Introduction to Part II: Practicing diversity? IR scholarship beyond the West; Julita Dudziak, Luisa Linke-Behrens, Sabine Mokry.- 6 Chinese Scholars´ Publishing Practices and Language - The Peaceful Rise-Debate; Sabine Mokry.- 7 Contesting the Secularization Paradigm: A Study of Religion-State Connections in Iranian IR; Luisa Linke-Behrens.- 8 Concepts of Indigenousness and Post-colonialism in Australian IR; Julita Dudziak. Introduction to Part III: Un-learning IR: Disciplinary and Academic Position(ing)s; Laura Appeltshauser, Sandra Bäthge, Laura Kemmer.- 9 Women´s Rights in Muslim Thought: Pushing the Boundaries of Human Rights Advocacy and IR Scholarship; Sandra Bäthge.- 10 African In/Security and Colonial Rule: Security Studies´ Neglect of Complexity; Laura Appeltshauser.- 11 Diversity as a Challenge? Decolonial Perspectives on Democratization; Laura Kemmer.- Conclusions: 12 Wor(l)ds beyond the West.- Peter Marcus Kristensen.- 13 By Way of Conclusion; L.H.M. Ling.

Ingo Peters is Associate Professor of Political Science and the executive director of the Center of Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar is at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies and a Research Associate of the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project at the College of William and Mary, USA.