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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. -- Provided by publisher

Gramscian globalists presume that internalization means externalization, modernization, & Westernization, thereby enhancing the world hegemony of Western liberal capitalism. It is argued here that internationalization mutates the world hegemony sometimes into non-Western, nonliberal orders of regional hegemony. As a case study, focus is on the People's Republic of China's internationalization into an Asian corporatist regional hegemony in the 1980s & 1990s. 1 Table, 105 References. Adapted from the source document.

Influence of Confucianism and other cultural factors that result in the government's consistently resorting to violence when faced with domestic dissent.

Decolonizing various traditional understandings and representations of Asia in International Relations (IR) this book opens by including all those geographical and cultural linkages that constitute Asia today but are generally ignored by conventional IR. Covering the Indian subcontinent, Turkey, the Mediterranean, Iran, the Arab world, and Central-Northeast-Southeast Asia, the volume draws on rich literatures to develop our understanding of power relations in the world's largest continent. Contributors 'de-colonize', 'de-imperialize', and 'de-Cold War' the region to articulate a meta-narrative about Asia, world politics and IR. This approach reframes old problems in new ways with the possibility of transforming them, rather than recycling the same old approaches with the same old 'intractable' outcomes