Decolonizing International Relations

Introduction: International Relations, Eurocentrism, and Imperialism
Part I: Eurocentric Origins and Limits
Chapter 1: International Relations as the Imperial Illusion; or, the Need to Decolonize IR
Chapter 2: International Relations Theory and the Hegemony of Western Conceptions of Modernity
Chapter 3: Liberalism, Islam, and International Relations
Part II: The Colonial and Racial Constitution of the International
Chapter 4: Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations
Chapter 5: Decolonizing the Concept of "Good Governance"
Chapter 6: Dispossession through International Law: Iraq in Historical and Comparative Context
Part III: Toward Decolonized Knowledge of the World and the International
Chapter 7: Beyond the Imperial Narrative: African Political Historiography Revisited
Chapter 8: Mind, Body, and Gut! Elements of a Postcolonial Human Rights Discourse
Chapter 9: Retrieving "Other" Visions of the Future: Sri Aurobindo and the Idea of Human Unity Conclusion: Decolonizing IR: Imperatives, Possibilities, and Limitations

Branwen Gruffydd Jones is lecturer in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds.

In this excellent and timely book Branwen Gruffydd Jones and collaborators present a bold and direct challenge to conventional and critical International Relations theory. Such is the breadth of scholarship, intellectual sophistication, and analytical rigor of this collection that it will be difficult to easily dismiss or evade this challenge. The book succeeds in uncovering long-dominant assumptions in International Relations scholarship and in devising strategies toward decolonizing the study of International Relations. -- Marc Williams, University of New South Wales Emerging at the height of colonialism, International Relations is not coincidentally but constitutively Eurocentric and imperialist. This volume dares to explore the politics of IR's imperialism, the imperative of moving beyond it, and possibilities for doing so. A cogent, accessible, and timely text. -- V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona