Kautilya and Non-Western IR Theory (eBook)

Deepshikha Shahi (Autor)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2019
XI, 167 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-01728-6 (ISBN)

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The ancient Indian text of Kautilya's Arthaśāstra comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR). However, Kautilya's Arthaśāstra largely suffers from the problem of 'presentism', whereby present-day assumptions of the dominant theoretical models of Classical Realism and Neorealism are read back into it, thereby disrupting open reflections on Kautilya's Arthaśāstra which could retrieve its 'alternative assumptions' and 'unconventional traits'. This book attempts to enable Kautilya's Arthaśāstra to break free from the problem of presentism - it does so by juxtaposing the elements of continuity and change that showed up at different junctures of the life-history of both 'Kautilya's Arthaśāstra' and 'Eurocentric IR'. The overall exploratory venture leads to a Kautilyan non-Western eclectic theory of IR - a theory which moderately assimilates miscellaneous research traditions of Eurocentric IR, and, in addition, delivers a few innovative features that could potentially uplift not only Indian IR, but also Global IR.

Deepshikha Shahi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, India. She previously studied at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research/Käte Hamburger-Kolleg, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She is the author of Advaita as a Global International Relations Theory.

Inhalt

1. Prelude2.Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra: A Philosophical Reconstruction3.Kautilya Meets Buddha: Arthaśāstra between the Realpolitik and Moralpolitik of Aśoka’s Mauryan Empire4.Kautilya Reincarnated: Steering Arthaśāstra toward an Eclectic Theory of International Relations5.PostludeBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Global Political Thinkers
• Reihe/Serie: Global Political Thinkers
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 167 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Arthaśāstra • Aśoka • Buddhist • commonalities • extra-political Realist • Global IR • Indian IR • Kautilya • Kautilyan • Lokāyata • Moral Philosophy • Moralpolitik • non-Western IR • Political Realist • Realpolitik • Sāṃkhya • social constructivism • Yoga
• ISBN-10: 3-030-01728-1 / 3030017281
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-01728-6 / 9783030017286