The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

Neumann, İver B.; Wigen, Einar

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“…The most recent pan-Eurasian IR works uncover similarities from extensive cross-cultural interactions, borrowings, and hybridization. They may present a deeper existential challenge to Eurocentrism by erasing European superiority: European civilization had 'dirty origins' from the steppe 187 ; Western colonizers were originally backwards and had to learn Asian precedents to successfully colonize Asia. 188 Acharya may have counted on the 'deep sense of legitimized hierarchy' in East Asia to help construct global IR, 189 but Eurasian similarities are more consistent with the goal of 'pluralistic universalism'.…”

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“…140 Neumann and Wigen powerfully denounce such 'sedentariocentrism'. 141 Phillips coins the terms 'Confucian man's burden', 'Confucian "civilizing mission"' and 'Confucian assimilation' to call out the hypocrisy. 142 Reconstituting 'Asia' and 'China' If the Confucian-nomadic divide is untenable, then East Asia should be 'yoked' back with the rest of Asia.…”

Section: De-essentializing the Confucian-nomadic Dividementioning

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“…33 Ibid., 50. 34 Ibid.,50,[81][82][83] 35 Ibid.,50,84,141. 36 Ibid.,49,135. 37 Ibid.,141. 38 Swidler 1986, 274, 277. almost any act'. 39 Christian Reus-Smit similarly emphasizes that culture is not internally coherent and externally bounded, but 'polyvalent, multilayered, riven with fissures, often contradictory'.…”

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‘Getting Asia right’: de-essentializing China's hegemony in historical Asia

Hui

2023

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International Relations (IR) scholars have taken China's presumed hegemony in pre-modern East Asia as an ideal case to ‘undermine’ the field's Eurocentrism. If Eurocentric IR is guilty of ‘getting Asia wrong’, do students of historical Asia ‘get Asia right’? Analysts should avoid exotifying differences between the West and the East and ‘exchanging Eurocentrism for Sinocentrism’. This article tries to ‘get Asia [more] right’ by ‘disaggregating’ and then ‘reassembling’ taken-for-granted concepts by time, space, and relationality. When ‘Confucianism’ is understood to justify both war and peace in competition with other thoughts, it does not dictate peace among East Asian states or conflicts across the Confucian–nomadic divide. When ‘China’ is unpacked, it does not sit on top of an Asian hierarchy. When Korea's, Vietnam's, and Japan's views of their relations with China are examined rather than presumed, cultural legitimacy is thinned out. When ‘Asia’ is broadened to cover webs of relations beyond East Asia to Central Asia, Confucianism recedes in centrality and pan-Asian phenomena including Buddhism and the steppe tradition come to the fore. The article concludes that a better challenge to Eurocentrism is not to search for cultural differences but to locate Eurasian similarities that erase European superiority.

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“…However, a new wave of studies on non-European polities before contact with European powers and their entry into international society has recently addressed this lack of research on non-Western international orders (Fawcett, 2017;Kadercan, 2017;Kang, 2010;Kwan, 2016;Neumann and Wigen, 2018;Phillips, 2021;Phillips and Sharman, 2015;Ringmar, 2012;Schulz, 2019;Sharman, 2019;Spruyt, 2020;Suzuki, 2005;Suzuki et al, 2014;Womack, 2012;Zarakol, 2022). They have pointed out that diverse forms of international orders existed outside Europe, sometimes even coexisting with the European sovereign state system until very recently.…”

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The Eastern cousins of European sovereign states? The development of linear borders in early modern Japan

Mukoyama

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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The conventional accounts of the history of the sovereign state system assume that territorial sovereignty originated in Europe and spread to the rest of the world through colonial expansion. This implies that territory, which is a core feature of the modern state, and more specifically, linear borders, had not existed outside Europe before other societies encountered the West. Focusing on early modern Japan, this article challenges that assumption by showing that there was a similar territorial order outside Europe that developed in parallel with its European counterpart. Through an investigation of boundary disputes, boundary markers, and map-making during the Edo period (1603–1868), it demonstrates that linear borders were not foreign to early modern Japan. Domains in Edo Japan were already well into the process of building a territorial order with demarcated borders and mutual exclusion. This article contributes to International Relations scholarship by addressing the “Westphalian myth” from a geographical rather than temporal perspective and shifting the focus of the study of non-Western international systems from differences to similarities. It also suggests a potential revision of scholarly understandings of discontinuity before and after the Meiji Restoration in Japan.

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Introduction: Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations

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2020

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The Steppe Tradition in International Relations

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‘Getting Asia right’: de-essentializing China's hegemony in historical Asia

‘Getting Asia right’: de-essentializing China's hegemony in historical Asia

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Introduction: Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations

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