The Zen of International Relations

Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Within International Relations Itself, A New Culture Rises Up; S.Chan & P.G.Mandaville PART I: ESTABLISHING A DEBATE Western (?) Studies of War Origins; H.Suganami Forget IR Theory; R.Bleiker PART II: ATTEMPTING TO FORM THE DEBATE Seven Types of Ambiguity in Western International Relations Theory and Painful Steps Towards Right Ethics; S.Chan A Story Beyond Telos: Redeeming the Shield of Achilles for a Realism of Rights in IR; S.Chan Stories of Priam and Job, the Slaughter of their Families, and Twenty Theses on the Suggestiveness of Good for the Person of International Relations; S.Chan PART III: THE INCLINATION OF MIDDLE EASTERN CIVILIZATION Can a Declined Civilization be Reconstructed? Islamic Civilization or Civilized Islam?; M.Mozaffari An Islamic Perspective on Non-Alignment: Iranian Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice; H.A.Sadri PART IV: THE ZEN OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS East-West Stories of War and Peace: Neorealist Claims in Light of Ancient Chinese Philosophy; R.Bleiker Selling Culture: Ancient Chinese Conceptions of 'The Other' in Legends; Q.Cao Zen Master's Story and an Anatomy of International Relations Theory; X.Huang BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Has Chinese International Relations Progressed?; W.Yi Index