Advaita as a Global International Relations Theory

Shahi, Deepshikha

doi:10.4324/9781351018036

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“…Rather than calling on the disputing parties to construct a Kantian 'culture of anarchy' (Wendt 1999) on the basis of a friend identity (which reproduces the us-them dichotomy), this research has maintained that what is at stake is a deep 'ontological switch' (Agathangelou and Ling 2004) enabling us to appreciate that those opposites are complementary and both-and, ultimately interconnected as an indivisible whole. This dao/EAM-informed engagement with relationality resonates with such cosmological notions as dharma, ayni, ubuntu and advaita (Trownsell et al 2021;Ncgoya 2015;Shahi 2018), pointing to a feasible way to decentre Westphalian IR presumptions about existence, both geoculturally and ontologically.…”

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confidence: 77%

Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yin – yang imbalance: political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations

Chen

2021

Third World Quarterly

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For many, relations across the Taiwan Strait appears to be an unresolvable sovereignty-cum-security impasse in the Westphalian world. Drawing analogies and metaphors from East Asian medicine (EAM), we reconceive this apparent zero-sum impasse as an inner imbalance of the China-Taiwan 'body' and investigate the possible healing effects of some Taiwanese Buddhist organisations. We identify three interrelated patterns in cross-Strait relations analogous to Spleen qi deficiency, Blood deficiency and yin deficiency. In EAM, the Spleen is associated with holding and its qi deficiency means poor digestion and/or Blood loss. Insufficient Blood is a type of yin deficiency, affecting all the fluids and lubrication of the body. While the cross-Strait movements of people, goods, services and capital have been increasing since the end of the Cold War, the 'body' fails to transform such 'food' into trust or a sense of 'we-ness' as 'Blood' . We argue that cross-Strait Buddhist exchanges are conducive to conflict transformation, although they do not amount to a cure-all. Specifically, Tzu Chi Foundation's charity work and Fo Guang Shan's cultural education in China have cultivated mutual understandings and goodwill at the grassroots level, resembling therapeutic responses that help to relieve some of the symptoms.

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confidence: 77%

Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yin – yang imbalance: political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations

Chen

2021

Third World Quarterly

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“…Others offer different ontologies, explanations, prescriptions, and knowledge claims which challenge positivism, structuralism, materialism, and the centrality of realism's core concepts (e.g. Rösch and Watanabe, 2017;Shahi, 2018Shahi, , 2019aTieku, 2012;Tingyang, 2006). Either way, non-Western scholarship does not offer better knowledge simply because it originates elsewhere.…”

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Realist avenues to global International Relations

Foulon

Meibauer

2020

European Journal of International Relations

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Realism has long been criticized by global IR, but the former can contribute to the latter and thereby improve explanations of international relations. Global IR criticizes that realism supposedly applies universally, sidelines non-Western perspectives, and misunderstands much of foreign policy, grand strategy, and international affairs. Reviewing global IR’s case against realism, however, exposes avenues for realism to complement global IR. Realism can contribute to a more global understanding of international relations through its most recent variant: neoclassical realism (NCR). This newest realism allows for contextualization and historicization of drivers of state behavior. It can embrace and has already been engaging global questions and cases; global thought and concepts; and global perspectives and scholarship. Mapping 149 NCR publications produced by 96 scholars reveals a slow shift in knowledge production away from North America toward Europe and to a lesser extent Asia and Africa. Creative research designs and scholarly collaboration can put realism in fruitful conversation with global IR. This has implications for theory building and inclusive knowledge production in realism, global IR, and the wider discipline. Only when we discover new avenues for realists to travel can they contribute to a more global IR. In turn, when global IR scholars engage realism, they may be better able to address the Western versus non-Western dichotomies they challenge.

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“…logic, interpretation, speech, repetition, emotionalism, silence, etc.) to inspect a gamut of plural and singular forms of reality whose origins or applications cannot be restricted to a specific spatiotemporal center of situated knowledge-forms; so, the Sufi Global IR achieves a non-centric outlook 174 .…”

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How to Problematize the Global?

Witt

Anderl

Acharya

et al. 2022

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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International Relations (IR) has long been criticized for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. In response, recent discussions have therefore centered on making IR ‘truly global’, that is, more inclusive and less parochial in its language and substance. But the concept of the global underpinning this discussion is both illusive and strongly contested. It requires problematization. But how? In this Forum, scholars discuss this question with a forward-looking agenda. Building on recent critical engagements with the question of the global as a concept in general and Global IR specifically, the authors ask how the global should be problematized in order to achieve a (more) progressive agenda for IR. They draw on different regional and disciplinary perspectives to both further the agenda of a less exclusive and racist discipline without falling into the trap of shallow inclusivity, and to discuss ways of problematizing the global without falling back into nativism or nationalism. Comment problématiser la globalité ?

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Advaita as a Global International Relations Theory

Cited by 18 publications

References 38 publications

Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yin – yang imbalance: political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations

Rethinking China–Taiwan relations as a yin – yang imbalance: political healing by Taiwanese Buddhist organisations

Realist avenues to global International Relations

How to Problematize the Global?

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