Eurocentrism in International Relations 2100-ERASMUS-EUIR
1. Introduction to Eurocentrism: To provide a course overview and foundations. The question will follow: Why does it matter in IR?
2. Evolution of Eurocentrism: To explore the impact of the Enlightenment, colonialism, the birth of modern IR and the development of IR as a discipline.
3. The Westphalian System and Its Eurocentric Prejudice: Historical context of the Peace of Westphalia and critical evaluation of the foundation of the modern international system.
4. The Problem of Internationalism: To discuss modernity, progress, and the West as a norm.
5. Core IR Concepts and Eurocentrism: It aims to deconstruct concepts such as sovereignty, the state, power, security, and development from non-Western perspectives.
6. Rethinking Sovereignty and Statehood: To discuss the construction of subaltern realism.
7. Eurocentrism and the Study of International History: Eurocentric prejudices in the writing and defining of the global history in IR.
8. The Global South in IR: Latin America, Africa, and Asia as an alternative IR perspective.
9. Globalisation and Eurocentrism: How the impact of globalisation perpetuates Eurocentric norms and power structures.
10. Contemporary International Affairs and Post-Eurocentric Perspectives: To understand global issues such as development, human rights, intervention, international institutions and global governance from non-Eurocentric lenses.
11. Methodological Challenges in Overcoming Eurocentrism: Challenges regarding IR research, scholarship and teaching.
12. Moving Beyond Eurocentrism: To analyse and diversify the curriculum, decentre Western perspectives
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
Kryteria oceniania
Class Participation: 20%
Attendance: 10 %
Final Exam: 70%
Literatura
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7. Dirlik, A. (1999). Is There History after Eurocentrism?: Globalism, Postcolonialism, and the Disavowal of History. Cultural Critique, 42, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.2307/1354590.
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9. Escobar, A. (2019). Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South. In Knowledge Born in the Struggle (pp. 41-57). Routledge.
10. Hobson, J. M. (2012). The Eurocentric conception of world politics: Western international theory, 1760-2010. Cambridge University Press.
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12. Kuru, D. (2016). Historicising Eurocentrism and anti-Eurocentrism in IR: A revisionist account of disciplinary self-reflexivity. Review of International Studies, 42(2), 351-376.
13. Kuru, D. (2016). Historicising Eurocentrism and anti-Eurocentrism in IR: A revisionist account of disciplinary self-reflexivity. Review of International Studies, 42(2), 351-376.
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17. Smith, K., & Tickner, A. B. (2020). Introduction: international relations from the global south. In International Relations from the Global South (pp. 1-14). Routledge.
18. Zarakol, A. (2018). A non-Eurocentric approach to sovereignty.
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