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Kautilya and Non-Western IR Theory


Kautilya and Non-Western IR Theory


Global Political Thinkers

von: Deepshikha Shahi

58,84 €

Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 29.09.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783030017286
Sprache: englisch

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The ancient Indian text of&nbsp;<i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i>&nbsp;comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR). However,&nbsp;<i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i>&nbsp;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&nbsp;<i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i>&nbsp;which could retrieve its ‘alternative assumptions’ and ‘unconventional traits’. This book attempts to enable&nbsp;<i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i>&nbsp;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 ‘<i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i>’ and ‘Eurocentric IR’. The overall exploratory venture leads to a Kautilyan non-Western eclectic theory of IR – a theory which moderately assimilates miscellaneousresearch traditions of Eurocentric IR, and, in addition, delivers a few innovative features that could potentially uplift not only Indian IR, but also Global IR.
<div>1.&nbsp;Prelude.-&nbsp;2. Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra: A Philosophical Reconstruction.-&nbsp;3. Kautilya Meets Buddha: Arthaśāstra between the Realpolitik and Moralpolitik of Aśoka’s Mauryan Empire.- 4.&nbsp;Kautilya Reincarnated: Steering Arthaśāstra toward an Eclectic Theory of International Relations.-&nbsp;</div><div>5. Postlude.</div>
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 <i>Advaita as a Global International Relations Theory</i>.
<div>The ancient Indian text of <i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i> comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR). However, <i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i> 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 <i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i> which could retrieve its ‘alternative assumptions’ and ‘unconventional traits’. This book attempts to enable <i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i> 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 ‘<i>Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra</i>’ 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 EurocentricIR, and, in addition, delivers a few innovative features that could potentially uplift not only Indian IR, but also Global IR.<br></div><div><br></div>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&nbsp;<i>Advaita as a Global International Relations Theory</i>.
Analyses Kautilya’s Arthasastra as a significant work of non-Western IR theory Rejects the dominant Classical Realist/Neorealist readings of Kautilya’s Arthasastra Exposes the extra-Political Realist elements of Kautilya’s Arthasastra, placing it as a work of ‘Political Realism between realpolitik and moralpolitik’