The International in Security, Security in the International

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International Relations continues to come under fire for its relative absence of international perspectives. In this exciting new volume, Pinar Bilgin encourages readers to consider both why and how ‘non-core’ geocultural sites allow us to think differently about key aspects of global politics. Seeking to further debates surrounding thinking beyond the 'West/non-West' divide, this book analyzes how scholarship on, and conceptions of, the international outside core contexts are tied up with peripheral actors’ search for security. Accordingly, Bilgin looks at core/periphery dynamics not only in terms of the production of knowledge in the production of IR scholarship, or material threats, but also peripheral actors' conceptions of the international in terms of 'standard of civilization' and their more contemporary guises, which she terms as ‘hierarchy in anarchical society’. The first three chapters provide a critical overview of the limits of ‘our’ theorizing about IR and security, as well as a discussion on the track record of critical approaches to IR and security in addressing those limits. The following three chapters offer one way of addressing the limits of ‘our’ theorizing about IR and security: by inquiring into the international in security, security in the international. Each of these chapters makes a theoretical point and illustrates this further in a spotlight section that further illustrates the point to aid student learning. A genuinely innovative contribution to this rapidly emerging field within IR, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of critical security, international relations theory and Global IR. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgement Introduction The plan Notes Bibliography 1. Limits of theorising about IR and security What limit? Ethnocentrism in IR theorising Parochialism in IR theorising Eurocentrism in IR theorising Conclusion Notes Bibliography 2. Critical theorising about IR and security ‘Who does the theorising?’ Critical IR and the limits of theorising about IR and security Conclusion Notes Bibliography 3. How to access others’ conceptions of the international IR scholarship outside North America and Western Europe Conceptions of the international in texts and contexts outside IR and/or North America and Western Europe Conclusion Notes Bibliography 4. Inquiring into security in the international ‘We already understand’, don’t we? Worlding IR – twofold meaning Worlding IR, inquiring into security in the international Conclusion Notes Bibliography 5. Inquiring into the international in security Others’ insecurities – re-thinking what ‘we already understand’ Others’ insecurities as encounters with ‘hierarchy in anarchical society’ Inquiring into the international in security – the case of Turkey’s secularisation (1920s–1930s) Conclusion Notes Bibliography 6. Civilisation, dialogue, in/security Clash of Civilisations scenarios – a challenge to world security? Dialogue of Civilisations initiatives – searching for world security? Civilisation Dialogue Security Conclusion Notes Bibliography Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index