Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations

Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations brings together scholars who use dialectical methods from a variety of philosophical and civilizational systems to examine core problems in world politics. These range from democracy, human rights, political economy, ecology, and world order to the metaphysics of Ancient India, philosophy in the Islamic Golden Age, and the theories of emancipation today. It offers a fresh perspective on dialectics, revealing it as a universal mode of thought spanning global transcultural, philosophical traditions. The book is a sustained dialogue between Marxian-Hegelian, Advaita, Buddhist, Daoist, Islamic, and Critical Realist traditions of theorizing within International Relations. Across the five chapters, experts explore how dialectics helps us understand a world that is in constant change, deeply interconnected, and full of contradictions. Each dialogue explores elements of dialectical thinking and its application to Global International Relations, illustrating how each tradition, in their unique ways, understand the interrelations and conditions in global social life and the potential for transformation this engenders. It highlights how many different civilizations developed their own systems of dialectical thinking, how each was made to respond to particular philosophical and social problems, and reveals that many of these approaches still resonate within the context of the many challenges facing humanity today. By challenging rigid, Western-centric thinking and transcending simplistic dualisms, the book provides vital tools for analysing complex global challenges and in dialectics finds a means of shared understanding between different cultures. In doing so, this book offers vital insights for 'worlding' Global International Relations and pursuing universal well-being in our deeply interconnected world. ABOUT THE SERIES: Voices in International Relations, published under the auspices of the European International Studies Association (EISA), furthers the development of research at the frontiers of International Relations (IR). It expands the remit of the field by including innovative scholarship that broadens key debates in the discipline, but it is more interested in reconfiguring such debates by approaching them from inside and outside the conventional core. Thematically, we aim to publish research that pushes the limits of IR conventionally defined from within and connects it to debates developing outside the discipline. We are committed to furthering diversity and inclusion in terms of authorship, location, topics and approaches from both inside and outside Europe. We have an inclusive approach to neighbouring disciplines, be it sociology, history, anthropology, geography, economics, political theory or law. Series editors: Debbie Lisle, Tanja Aalberts, Anna Leander, and Laura Sjoberg.

Shannon Brincat is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Brincat's work focuses on processes of global transformation across political community. He is interested in Critical Theory, imagination, and dialectics and in understanding how people have sought to expand the circle of inclusion in cosmopolitan community through processes of mutual recognition in world politics. Brincat has published widely in critical approaches to world politics, has edited a number of collections, most recently Che Lives!, and his articles have appeared in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, and the Review of International Studies. He is co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse and sits on the editorial board of Globalizations.