Nondualism in International Relations

A Methodological Reconstruction Beyond Binaries
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-28976-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Worlding Beyond the West

Nondualism in International Relations: A Methodological Reconstruction Beyond Binaries examines how International Relations has long been structured by binary thinking—inside/outside, self/other, West/non-West, hierarchy/anarchy, and theory/practice. While recent approaches, including Global IR, have sought to pluralise the field, they often retain a methodological commitment to separability, treating analytical units as pre-given or historically constituted discrete entities.

The book uses Global IR as an entry point, arguing that overcoming binary thinking requires not the addition of new perspectives, but a reorientation at the level of methodology. Advancing nondualism as a basis for the methodological reconstruction of IR, the volume brings together contributions that develop distinct nondualist methodological models across core domains of enquiry, including space, time, meaning, logic, order, ethics, gender, and identity. Each chapter follows a shared analytical sequence: identifying dualist limitations, developing a nondualist methodological model, and demonstrating its practical implications. These approaches are illustrated through engagements with issues such as territoriality, temporal ordering, cross-cultural interpretation, environmental governance, international order, conflict and reconciliation, gendered political processes, migration, and uneven global development. By shifting the focus from epistemic pluralism to methodological reconstruction, the book advances a Lakatosian nondualist IR research programme with implications beyond the discipline, extending to wider debates across the social sciences and humanities. It offers a systematic approach to analysing complex political formations without reducing them to fixed categories or either–or logics.

Nondualism in International Relations will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations and Global IR, as well as those working in political theory, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, and human geography.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shahi, Deepshikha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Nondualism as Methodology: From Global IR to Post-Binary International Relations  Part I: Space, Time, and Meaning  Chapter 2. Transterritorialism  Chapter 3. Covariance  Chapter 4. Archimedean Meeting  Part II: Logic, Order, and Ethics  Chapter 5. Trialectics  Chapter 6. Tianxiaism  Chapter 7. Ubuntism  Part III: Gender and Identity  Chapter 8. Concomitance  Chapter 9. Beyond-Cartesianism  Conclusion. Nondualist International Relations: Toward a Post-Binary Research Programme

Über Autor(innen)

Deepshikha Shahi is Professor of Politics and International Relations at O. P. Jindal Global University, India, and is currently based at the University of Rostock, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Her research focuses on Global International Relations, non-Western intellectual resources, philosophy of science, and the politics of knowledge production. She is the author and editor of several books, with publications in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, International Theory, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and Third World Quarterly.