non-western Flashcards
post-colonialism
focusses on the subaltern literature and anthropology- covering the mainly overlooked political history of a group
what does subaltern mean?
identifies the colonial populations as excluded from the hierarchy of power of an imperial colony and from the metropolitan homeland of an empire
solutions to non-western IR problem (3)
- incorporating multiple and global origins of concepts
- non western actors’ recognition- chinese, indian
- comparing and generalizing from local to global
proponents of dependency theory in opposition to modernization theory
prebisch, cardoso, amin
breaking out of the westphalian narrative
disregards other forms of communities like indigenous communities
greater role of ideas - examples
- human development before human security - amartya sen and mahbub ul haq
- sovereignty as a responsibility leading to r2p- francis deng
highlighting the role of race
realism and liberalisml transcended racism, it’s an international issue, race as a unit of analysis, racist beliefs consistently shaped IR
breaking with anarhcophilia
rather than anarchy- there was an hierarchy- islamicate, east asia
balance of power is not automatic