Chris Berry

Laikwan Pang

Tani Barlow

Wang Hui

L. H. M. Ling

Celia Lowe

Hiroko Sakamoto

Ashley Carruthers

Kun Jong Lee

Suk-Jung Han

A special edition of positions: asia critique

Intellectuals and Social Movements

Payal Banerjee

Explores the ancient relationship between India and China to conceptualise a 'third space' wherein we can discover how their emergence might benefit, rather than threaten, international society.

An Ancient Dialectic for Contemporary World Politics

Between India and China

This book draws on Daoist yin/yang dialectics to move world politics from the current stasis of hegemony, hierarchy, and violence to a more balanced engagement with parity, fluidity, and ethics. The author theorizes that we may develop a richer, more representative approach towards sustainable and democratic governance by offering a non-Western alternative to hegemonic debates in IR. The book presents the story of world politics by integrating folk tales and popular culture with policy analysis. It does not exclude current models of liberal internationalism but rather brackets them for another day, another purpose. The deconstruction of IR as a singular unifying school of thought through the lens of a non-Westphalian analytic shows a unique perspective on the forces that drive and shape world politics. This book suggests new ways to articulate and act so that global politics is more inclusive and less coercive. Only then, the book claims, could IR realize what the dao has always stood for: a world of compassion and care. The Dao of World Politics bridges the humanities and social sciences, and will be of interest to scholars and students of the global/international, as well as policymakers and activists of the local/domestic.

Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations

The Dao of World Politics

W. Scott Gray

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