After the West: Critical Movements in the Discipline of International Relations

Document Type : Original Independent Original Article

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SOAS, University of London and Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge

Abstract

This short intervention peruses new movements in the discipline of International Relations with a particular emphasis on the “post-western” turn in IR theory which promises to usher into better concepts for the analysis of world politics

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