Policy Discourses and Security Issues: US Foreign Policy Toward India During the Clinton Administration

Wetering, Carina van de

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“…In other words, my choice represents a case of Tianxia scholarship whose theoretical discussion offers us likely the most direct access to the tensions within the logic of Tianxia Theories, as its author has made it his mission to construct a version of Tianxia Theory based on an explicit rejection of ethnocentrism that he saw in Tianxia-ism as commonly understood. Specifically, I focus on Xu Jilin's New Tianxia-ism, a proposal that claims to reorganize the international 42 George and Campbell 1990, Doty 1993, Milliken 1999, van de Wetering 2017 43 Doty 1993, 298. 44 Epstein 2011, 17. 45 Ibid.…”

Section: Resilience Of Non-western Ethnocentrism In Global Irmentioning

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Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric subject and the paradox of Tianxia-ism

Chu

2020

Int. Theory

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This essay critically assesses the Tianxia Theories, a line of indigenous International Relations (IR) theorizing in China organized around the concept of Tianxia (‘all-under-heaven’). My goal is to tackle a seemingly prevalent issue among non-Western IR theories, that is, the indigenous scholars' subservience to state cues and often uncritical attitude toward their own ethnocentrism. To that end, I strategically target a recent contribution to this scholarship that explicitly seeks to articulate a non-ethnocentric theory: Xu Jilin's New Tianxia-ism (xin tianxia zhuyi). I first examine the main thesis of New Tianxia-ism to reveal its internal tensions. Then I examine what enables the formulation of New Tianxia-ism from a discursive perspective. I argue that a particular subject position, to which I refer as the ‘Sinocentric Subject’, plays an instrumental role in enabling contemporary Chinese intellectuals to think along the logics of New Tianxia-ism. The result, however, undermines the agenda to articulate an alternative theory that rectifies the ethnocentrism in IR. In conclusion, I suggest that Chinese indigenous scholarship ought to engage more critically the ideological inclination and the politics of knowledge within its own epistemic community.

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Section: Resilience Of Non-western Ethnocentrism In Global Irmentioning

confidence: 99%

Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric subject and the paradox of Tianxia-ism

Chu

2020

Int. Theory

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Policy Discourses and Security Issues: US Foreign Policy Toward India During the Clinton Administration

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Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric subject and the paradox of Tianxia-ism

Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric subject and the paradox of Tianxia-ism

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