CHEN Ching-Chang   陳 慶昌    所属   立命館アジア太平洋大学  アジア太平洋学部    職種   教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2011/01
形態種別	学術論文
査読	査読あり
標題	The absence of non-western IR theory in Asia reconsidered
執筆形態	単著
掲載誌名	INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC
掲載区分	国外
出版社・発行元	OXFORD UNIV PRESS
巻・号・頁	11(1),pp.1-23
担当区分	筆頭著者,責任著者
著者・共著者	Ching-Chang Chen
概要	This paper critically examines an ongoing debate in International Relations (IR) as to why there is apparently no non-Western IR theory in Asia and what should be done to 'mitigate' that situation. Its central contention is that simply calling for greater incorporation of ideas from the non-West and contributions by non-Western scholars from local 'vantage points' does not make IR more global or democratic, for that would do little to transform the discipline's Eurocentric epistemological foundations. Re-envisioning IR in Asia is not about discovering or producing as many 'indigenous' national schools of IR as possible, but about reorienting IR itself towards a post-Western era that does not reinforce the hegemony of the West within (and without) the discipline. Otherwise, even if local scholars could succeed in crafting a 'Chinese (or Indian, Japanese, Korean, etc.) School', it would be no more than constructing a 'derivative discourse' of Western modernist social science.
DOI	10.1093/irap/lcq014
ISSN	1470-482X