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Intro -- Contents -- The Author -- Acknowledgments -- This book -- 1. Introduction -- Comparative international systems -- Institutions, rules, and norms -- Stateless societies -- Walls and bridges -- Further reading -- Think about -- 2. China and East Asia -- The Warring States period -- The development of the Chinese state -- The overland system -- The tribute system -- A Japanese international system? -- Further reading -- Timeline -- Short dictionary -- Think about -- 3. India and Indianization -- Vedic India -- Classical India -- Indianization -- The Mughal Empire -- India as an international system -- Timeline -- Short dictionary -- Think about -- 4. The Muslim Caliphates -- The Arab expansion -- The Umayyads and the Abbasids -- The Arabs in Spain -- An international system of caliphates -- The Ottoman Empire -- Further reading -- Timeline -- Short dictionary -- Think about -- 5. The Mongol Khanates -- From Temüjin to Genghis Khan -- A nomadic state -- How to conquer the world -- Dividing it all up -- An international system of khanates -- Further reading -- Timeline -- Short dictionary -- Think about -- 6. Africa -- The Nile River Valley -- North Africa -- The kingdoms of West Africa -- East Africa and the Indian Ocean -- An African international system? -- Further reading -- Timeline -- Short dictionary -- Think about -- 7. The Americas -- The Maya -- The Aztecs -- The Incas -- North America -- Further reading -- Timeline -- Short dictionary -- Think about -- 8. European Expansion -- A sea route to India -- Europeans in the "New World" -- A commercial world economy -- An industrial world economy -- The apotheosis of colonialism -- Decolonization -- Further reading -- Timeline -- Short dictionary -- Think about -- Afterthoughts: Walls and Bridges.

"Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues.

The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these international systems were brought into contact with each other through the agency of Mongols in Central Asia, Arabs in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, Indic and Sinic societies in South East Asia, and the Europeans through their travels and colonial expansion. The concluding section concerns contemporary issues: the processes of decolonization, neo-colonialism and globalization – and their consequences on contemporary society.

History of International Relations provides a unique textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of international relations, and anybody interested in international relations theory, history, and contemporary politics."