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Argues for and suggests the contours of a post-Western International RelationsConfronts the interpretation of difference as a dangerous aberration from the norms of stability, safety and order
Synopsis
International Relations and the Problem of Difference has developed out of the sense that IR 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. In this work, the authors re-imagine IR as a uniquely placed site for the study of differences as organized explicitly around the exploration of the relation of wholes and parts and sameness and difference-and always the one in relation to the other.