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This article aims to revisit the enterprise of the Chinese School (CS) of IR and discuss how it should be viewed and handled in the discipline, specifically from within the analytical framework of the power/resistance nexus put forward by Foucault, Bhabha, and Spivak. The argument of this article is twofold. Firstly, the CS attempts to reinvigorate traditional Chinese concepts (that is, humane authority, the Tianxia system, and relationality), which mimick Western mainstream IR. These concepts channel the CS into a realist notion of power, a liberal logic of cosmopolitanism, and a constructivist idea of relationality. Thus, the CS uses against the West concepts and themes that the West currently use against the non-Western world. Nevertheless, as the second part of the argument will demonstrate, the enterprise of the CS can still be justified because it can be regarded as a reverse discourse; mimicking yet altering the original meanings of the taken-for-granted concepts, ideas, and principles used by mainstream IR scholars. Moreover, with the judicious use of strategic essentialism, the CS can potentially be one local group in a wider effort to contest diffused and decentred forms of Western domination through linking various struggles to form a unified 'counter-hegemonic bloc' of post-Western IR in the discipline.

AbstractThis article explores how International Studies as a scientific discipline emerged and developed in China, against the background of a Sinocentric world order that had predominated in East Asia for a long time. The argument of this article is threefold. First, the discipline relied heavily on historical, legal, and political studies, and placed a heavy focus on the investigation of China's integration into the Westphalian system. Second, studies of International Relations were grounded in a problem-solving approach to various issues China was facing at various times in the course of modernisation. Third, the historical development of International Studies in China has had a profound impact on the current IR scholarship in both the PRC and Taiwan, including the recent surge of attempts to establish a Chinese School of IR theory in China and the voluntary acceptance of Western IR in Taiwan. By way of conclusion, the article suggests that there is still an indigenous Chinese site of agency with regards to developing IR. This agency exists despite the fact that in the course of the disciplinary institutionalisation of IR Chinese scholars have largely absorbed Western knowledge.

The rebalance under the Obama administration : transformational leadership and selective engagement / Tanguy Struye de Swielande -- "The dialogue of East and West" : Joseph Needham revisited / Bart Dessein -- Sovereignty and identity : Taiwan's claims in the South China Sea / Yih-Jye Hwang and Edmund Frettingham -- Power, international law, and the Philippine hedging strategy in the South China Sea / Chih-Mao Tang -- Japan, China and the territorial disputes in the China Seas : the uncertain dynamics of Asian-Pacific geopolitics / Elena Atanassova-Cornelis -- All at Sea? Japanese conceptions of regional order in response to the South China Sea disputes / Lindsay Black -- The changing meanings of 'freedom of navigation' : Australia, China, and the politics of order in the 'Indo-Pacific' / Christian Wirth -- Reflections on the awards concerning the legal status and maritime entitlement of maritime features in the South China Sea arbitration : a legal and political analysis / Xu Qi.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Yih-Jye Hwang and Lucie Cerna -- 1 Peace in Historical Perspective: The Birth of Contemporary Peace Movements /Ann Marie Wilson -- 2 The Causes of War /Niels van Willigen and Benjamin Pohl -- 3 Biology of War /Patsy Haccou -- 4 Just War Theory /Laurens van Apeldoorn -- 5 Law of War /Yih-Jye Hwang and Lucie Cerna -- 6 The Economics of War /William Hynes -- 7 The Representation of War in Literature, Film and New Media /Corina Stan -- 8 End of War /Niels van Willigen and Jessica Kroezen -- 9 The Yugoslav Wars /Francesco Ragazzi -- 10 The Iraq War /Edmund Frettingham -- 11 The Pacific War /Maja Vodopivec -- 12 War and Peace in Colombia /Håvar Solheim and Eric Storm -- 13 Genocide, War and Peace in Rwanda /Helen M. Hintjens -- 14 The Libyan Civil War and the Rise of the 'Responsibility to Protect' /Sara Kendall -- Index.

In responding to piracy in the Gulf of Aden, both Chinese and Japanese policymakers have acted as norm entrepreneurs who intend to transform the dominant norms of international society. Chinese and Japanese norm entrepreneurship is grounded in the ways in which foreign policy actors construct and reconstruct their state identity. In China's case, policymakers have projected China's self-image as a responsible and benevolent Great Power that derives from the Chinese conception of Tianxia. Japanese foreign policy actors, on the other hand, have advanced the notion of Japan as a bridge that mediates between East and West, developing and developed states, members and non-members of international society. Although we do not advocate that Chinese or Japanese norm entrepreneurship should be accepted uncritically, we do maintain that there exist opportunities to combine and develop the multiple approaches that different states promote to problems. This article has shown that dealing with Somali piracy is one such case.

Bringing together leading scholars from Asia and the West, this book investigates how the dynamics of China's rise in world politics contributes to theory-building in International Relations (IR). The book demonstrates how the complex and transformative nature of China's advancement is also a point of departure for theoretical innovation and reflection in IR more broadly. In doing so, the volume builds a strong case for a genuinely global and post-Western IR. It contends that 'non-Western' countries should not only be considered potential sources of knowledge production, but also original and legitimate focuses of IR theorizing in their own right.