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008			210319s2018 enk b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2017033011
020			_a9781138088788 (hardcover)
020			_a1138088781 (hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1004635988
050			_aJZ1306 _b.K39 2018
100	1		_aKavalski, Emilian.
245	1	4	_aThe guanxi of relational international theory / _cEmilian Kavalski.
260			_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c2018.
300			_avii, 129 p.
490	1		_aRethinking Asia and international relations
500			_a"Routledge Focus"--Cover.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 103-116) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : the Columbus syndrome of international relations -- A relational dance or a scripted Concert of Europe? -- The relational turn(s) in the Anglosphere and Sinosphere of international relations -- The guanxi of relationality -- Conclusion : a relational theory of international relations beyond the Eurocentric frame.
520			_a"This book offers a relational theory of International Relations (IR). To show the ways in which the relationality is foreshadowed in IR conversations it makes the following three points: 1) it recovers a mode of IR theorizing as itinerant translation; 2) it deploys the concept and practices of guanxi (employed here as a heuristic device revealing the infinite capacity of international interactions to create and construct multiple worlds) to uncover the outlines of a relational IR theorizing; and 3) it demonstrates that relational theorizing is at the core of projects for worlding IR. By engaging with the phenomenon of relationality, Emilian Kavalski invokes the complexity of possible worlds and demonstrates new possibilities for powerful ethical-political innovations in IR theorizing. Thus, relational IR theorizing emerges as an optic which both acknowledges the agency of 'others' in the context of myriad interpretative intersections of people, powers, and environments (as well as their complex histories, cultures, and agency) and stimulates awareness of the dynamically-intertwined contingencies through which meanings are generated contingently through interactions in communities of practice. The book will have a strong appeal to the broad academic readership in Asian Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations theory and students and scholars of non-/post-Western International Relations and non-/post-Western Political Thought."--Provided by publisher.
650		4	_aInternational relations _xMoral and ethical aspects.
830		0	_aRethinking Asia and international relations.
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