02876cam a2200301 i 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022010001700063020003000080020002700110035002200137050002200159100002300181245007100204260005600275300001600331490004800347500003000395504006400425505033400489520151200823650005602335830004902391942001202440952010702452999001502559on1004635988OCoLCta210319s2018    enk      b    001 0 eng    a  2017033011  a9781138088788 (hardcover)  a1138088781 (hardcover)  a(OCoLC)1004635988  aJZ1306b.K39 20181 aKavalski, Emilian.14aThe guanxi of relational international theory /cEmilian Kavalski.  aAbingdon, Oxon ;aNew York, NY :bRoutledge,c2018.  avii, 129 p.1 aRethinking Asia and international relations  a"Routledge Focus"--Cover.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 103-116) and index.0 aIntroduction : the Columbus syndrome of international relations -- A relational dance or a scripted Concert of Europe? -- The relational turn(s) in the Anglosphere and Sinosphere of international relations -- The guanxi of relationality -- Conclusion : a relational theory of international relations beyond the Eurocentric frame.  a"This book offers a relational theory of International Relations (IR). To show the ways in which the relationality is foreshadowed in IR conversations it makes the following three points: 1) it recovers a mode of IR theorizing as itinerant translation; 2) it deploys the concept and practices of guanxi (employed here as a heuristic device revealing the infinite capacity of international interactions to create and construct multiple worlds) to uncover the outlines of a relational IR theorizing; and 3) it demonstrates that relational theorizing is at the core of projects for worlding IR. By engaging with the phenomenon of relationality, Emilian Kavalski invokes the complexity of possible worlds and demonstrates new possibilities for powerful ethical-political innovations in IR theorizing. Thus, relational IR theorizing emerges as an optic which both acknowledges the agency of 'others' in the context of myriad interpretative intersections of people, powers, and environments (as well as their complex histories, cultures, and agency) and stimulates awareness of the dynamically-intertwined contingencies through which meanings are generated contingently through interactions in communities of practice. The book will have a strong appeal to the broad academic readership in Asian Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations theory and students and scholars of non-/post-Western International Relations and non-/post-Western Political Thought."--Provided by publisher. 4aInternational relationsxMoral and ethical aspects. 0aRethinking Asia and international relations.  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oJZ1306 .K39 2018pPNLIB21061869r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c2056d2056