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 Studie
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