Global IR and Western Dominance: Moving Forward or Eurocentric Entrapment?
| Author | Melody Fonseca |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829819872817 |
| Published date | 01 September 2019 |
| Date | 01 September 2019 |
| Subject Matter | Review Article |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829819872817
Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2019, Vol. 48(1) 45 –59
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Global IR and Western
Dominance: Moving
Forward or Eurocentric
Entrapment?
Melody Fonseca
University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Audrey Alejandro, Western Dominance in International Relations? The Internationalisation of IR in
Brazil and India (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019, 208 pp., £115 hbk).
Ersel Aydinli and Gonca Biltekin, eds. Widening the World of International Relations:
Homegrown Theorizing (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, 252 pp., £115 hbk).
Zeynep Gülşah Çapan, Re-Writing International Relations. History and Theory Beyond
Eurocentrism in Turkey (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 128 pp., £75 hbk).
Yongjin Zhang and Teng-Chi Chang, eds. Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations:
Ongoing Debates and Sociological Realities (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016, 276 pp., £37.99 pbk).
Abstract
Over the last decade, a call for decolonisation has challenged IR scholarship. The call has advocated
for the need to decolonise the epistemology and ontology of the discipline, critically engaging with
the legacies of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy in global power relations. Parallel
to the decolonial project, a call to globalise International Relations has been made by well-known
scholars in recent years predominantly through the Global IR project. In this review essay of four
books I briefly engage with the debates around Global IR and its critics drawing on a decolonial
perspective. On the one hand, I discuss the potentialities and limitations of historiographical
deconstruction as a methodological tool, raising issues with the current silencing of the ‘present’
due to the continued coloniality of knowledge. On the other hand, I delve into the wide range
Corresponding author:
Melody Fonseca, Department of Political Science, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Faculty of Social
Sciences, P.O. Box 23345, San Juan, 00931-3345, Puerto Rico.
Email: melody.fonseca2@upr.edu
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