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International relations theory and the question of Eastern agency

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Uluslararasi ilişkiler teorisinde yerel- görüşlülük ve Doǧunun özneselliǧi

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I argue that International Relations Theory has not been able to transcend its parochialism because it continues to negate the agency of the East. By analyzing the articles published in four leading journals of the discipline between 2002-2007, I find that the number of studies that focus on the East have indeed increased, but most of these studies continue to situate the cases derived from the East in the context of West-centric theories. Even critical approaches continue to position the West as the main subject of international relations and dismiss the mutual constitution and interaction between the East and the West, and the local and global. I contend that the generation of non-Western IR theories is not going to pose an adequate challenge to West-centrism; what is necessary is the formulation of specific propositions on East-West relations that directly counter the established assumptions of West-centric theories.

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Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği

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International Relations

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Uluslararasi İlişkiler / International Relations

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