Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations (Voices in International Relations)

Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations brings together scholars who use dialectical methods from a variety of philosophical and civilizational systems to examine core problems in world politics.These range from democracy, human rights, political economy, ecology, and world order to the metaphysics of Ancient India, philosophy in the Islamic Golden Age, and the theories of emancipation today.It offers a fresh perspective on dialectics, revealing it as a universal mode of thought spanning global transcultural, philosophical traditions. The book is a sustained dialogue between Marxian-Hegelian, Advaita, Buddhist, Daoist, Islamic, and Critical Realist traditions of theorizing within International Relations.Across the five chapters, experts explore how dialectics helps us understand a world that is in constant change, deeply interconnected, and full of contradictions.Each dialogue explores elements of dialectical thinking and its application to Global International Relation