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The Zen of International Relations This page intentionally left blank The Zen of International Relations IR Theory from East to West Edited by Stephen Chan Professor of International Ethics Dean of Humanities Nottingham Trent University, UK Peter Mandaville Assistant Professor of Government and Politics George Mason University Virginia, USA and Roland Bleiker Senior Lecturer and Co-Director Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution University of Queensland, Australia Editorial matter, selection and Chapter 1 © Stephen Chan, Peter Mandaville and Roland Bleiker 2001 Chapters 4–6 © Stephen Chan 2001 Chapters 2, 3, 7–11 and Bibliographical Note © Palgrave Publishers Ltd 2001 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2001 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St. Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd). ISBN 978-1-349-40097-3 ISBN 978-0-230-28642-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230286429 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Zen of international relations : IR theory from East to West / [edited by] Stephen Chan, Peter Mandaville, and Roland Bleiker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. International relations—Philosophy. 2. China—Foreign relations—1976– I. Chan, Stephen, 1949– II. Mandaville, Peter, 1971– III. Bleiker, Roland. JZ1305 .Z46 2001 327.1’01—dc21 00–-66902 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Contributors viii 1 Introduction: Within International Relations Itself, a New Culture Rises Up Stephen Chan and Peter Mandaville 1 Part I Establishing a Debate 2 Western (?) Stories of War Origins Hidemi Suganami 17 3 Forget IR Theory Roland Bleiker 37 Part II Attempting to Form the Debate 4 Seven Types of Ambiguity in Western International Relations Theory and Painful Steps Towards Right Ethics Stephen Chan 69 5 A Story Beyond Telos: Redeeming the Shield of Achilles for a Realism of Rights in IR Stephen Chan 79 6 Stories of Priam and Job, the Slaughter of Their Families, and Twenty Theses on the Suggestiveness of Good for the Person of IR Stephen Chan 99 Part III The Inclination of Middle Eastern Civilisation 7 Can a Declined Civilisation be Reconstructed? Islamic `Civilisation' or `Civilised' Islam? Mehdi Mozaffari 129 8 An Islamic Perspective on Non-Alignment: Iranian Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice Houman A. Sadri 157 v vi Contents Part IV The Zen of International Relations 9 East±West Stories of War and Peace: Neorealist Claims in the Light of Ancient Chinese Philosophy Roland Bleiker 177 10 Selling Culture: Ancient Chinese Conceptions of `the Other' in Legends Qing Cao 202 11 The Zen Master's Story and an Anatomy of International Relations Theory Xiaoming Huang 222 Bibliographical Note: Has Chinese IR Progressed? Wang Yi 244 Index 249 Acknowledgements Indeed, let more stories be told. If this volume accomplishes that, or makes some space for that, the editors will feel very pleased. As ever, they look to resume another stage of their own story-telling at the next Pan-European conference. Debts are owed to John Groom, for reasons mentioned in the intro- duction; and also to Osmo Apunen, who was the co-editor of an original volume of conference proceedings from Paris that, sadly, fell by the wayside. Stephen Chan's contributions were variously rehearsed at the Universities of Kent, Tampere, Aberystwyth, Nottingham Trent, South- ampton, and the London School of Economics. He thanks all the stu- dents and staff at those institutions for their patience, and hopes the scepticism, in particular of Southampton, may be a little redressed by this volume. He thanks Vivienne Jabri for her loyal support, and Ranka Primorac for her loyally raised eyebrows; and Janet Elkington for womanfully word-processing so much of this, retaining every successive version on her overcrowded disk. vii Notes on the Contributors Roland Bleiker is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, University of Queensland. He has also taught at the Australian National University, Pusan National University and the University of Tampere. He is the author of Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and a number of articles in scholarly journals. Qing Cao has been Associate Professor at Hangzhou University, teach- ing Comparative Cultures. A graduate of the International Academy of Chinese Culture, Northeast Normal University, and the University of London, he is completing his PhD at The Nottingham Trent University. He has contributed to both Chinese and English language journals, and has also co-authored and co-edited books in both languages. Stephen Chan is Dean of Humanities and Professor in International Relations and Ethics at Nottingham Trent University. He has served on the faculties of Kent and Zambia, and has advised several governments, international institutions, liberation movements and third world oppos- ition groups. Formerly an international civil servant with the Common- wealth Secretariat, he participated in the transition to independence of Zimbabwe. He has recently established the Kwok Meil Wah Foundation, to assist third world causes. Xiaoming Huang is Lecturer in East Asian Politics, the School of Polit- ical Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wel- lington, New Zealand. Trained in international relations, Dr Huang received his LL B and LL M from Peking University, Beijing, and PhD from the USC, Los Angeles, with a strong interest in comparative IR theory. Before joining Victoria University he had held various teaching and research positions at the East±West Center, Honolulu; the United Nations University, Tokyo; the Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC; the Center for International Studies/Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles; the University of Tampere, Fin- land; the University of Trondheim, Norway; and the University of Pitts- burgh. Dr Huang's primary interest in teaching and research focuses on institution and culture in modern politics. His current research projects viii Notes on the Contributors ix include a book-length manuscript on the institutional conditions and consequences of the Asian model of development. Dr Huang's recent publications include an article in International Studies Quarterly (1997) and an edited volume, Strong Market, Weakening State and the Political Economic Transition in East Asia (2000). Peter Mandaville is Assistant Professor of Government and Poltics at George Mason University in Virginia. His research interests include transnational Muslim politics, non-Western political theory and the philosophy of community. He has published in journals such as Millennium and the Review of International Studies, and is the author of Transnational Muslim Poltics: Reimagining the Umma: (Routledge, 2001). Mehdi Mozaffari is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus (Denmark). He was formerly a Professor at Tehran University, a lecturer at Universite Paris 1 (Sorbonne-PantheÂon) and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. His recent publications are: Security Policy of the Commonwealth of Independent States (ed.) (London: Macmillan, 1997); Fatwa: Violence and Discourtesy (Oxford: Aarhus University Press, 1998) and Pouvoir Shi'ite: theÂorie et eÂvolution (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998). His current research project is focused on `Globalization and Civilization' and `Emerging of a New International Law and Ethics'. Houman A. Sadri is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Central Florida. He joined the Department of Political Science at UCF in 1995 after earning his doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the Univer- sity of Virginia. His book, Revolutionary States: Leaders and Foreign Rela- tions, was published by the Praeger Press in 1997. Dr Sadri is also the author of several professional articles and book chapters dealing with different aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Hidemi Suganami is Professor of the Philosophy of International Rela- tions in the New School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment at Keele University, England, where he has taught since 1975, having previously studied at Tokyo, Aberystwyth and London. His publications include: The Domestic Analogy and World Order Proposals (Cambridge University Press, 1989) and On the Causes of War (Oxford University Press, 1996). He is currently working on a joint book with Andrew Linklater on the English School of International Relations.
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