This volumes engages with the 'Global(izing)

International Relations' debate, which is marked by the emerging tensions

between the steadily increasing diversity and persisting dividing lines in

today's International Relations (IR) scholarship. Its international cast of

scholars draw together a diverse set of theoretical and methodological

approaches, and a multitude of case studies focusing on IR scholarship in

African and Muslim thought, as well as in countries such as China, Iran,

Australia, Russia and Southeast Asian and Latin American regions. The following

questions underpin this study: how is IR practiced beyond the West, and which

theoretical alternatives are there for Western IR concepts? Fundamentally, what

divides today's IR scholarship in light of its geo-epistemological diversity?

This volume identifies shortcomings in the existing debate and offers new

pathways for future research.