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- ISBN: 9780415577724 | 0415577721
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/20/2010
The purpose of the book is to use a set of geo-culturally diverse investigations in order to sketch out, on the grounds of IR, the theoretical and substantive contours of an engagement with non-Western thought that refuses to approach this body of thought as either exotic to, or derivative of, the orthodox Western canon. In fine, the book highlights and explores the global , rather than European or Western context within which knowledge of modernity has been developed. In this respect, the core assumption that frames the book is that colonialism and imperialism have always been co-constitutive of processes of capitalist development and/or the modern territorial re-organization of political communities. At a minimum, globalization is not an escape from this historical relationship, but a re-ordering ' and possibly intensification - of it. The retrieval for IR of this global colonial and imperial context to the knowledge production of modernity might help to provide deeper insights into the racial, religious, and cultural dimensions of a modernity shaped so fundamentally by colonialism and Western expansionism, insights that are right now desperately needed for a discipline so closely implicated in Western foreign policy making.