Kautilya and Non-Western IR Theory

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-13191-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 167 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 241 g

Reihe: Global Political Thinkers

The ancient Indian text of Kautilya’s Arthasastra comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR). However, Kautilya’s Arthasastra 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 Kautilya’s Arthasastra which could retrieve its ‘alternative assumptions’ and ‘unconventional traits’. This book attempts to enable Kautilya’s Arthasastra 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 ‘Kautilya’s Arthasastra’ 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 Eurocentric IR, and, in addition, delivers a few innovative features that could potentially uplift not only Indian IR, but also Global IR.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shahi, Deepshikha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Prelude
2. Kautilya’s Arthasastra: A Philosophical Reconstruction
3. Kautilya Meets Buddha: Arthasastra between the Realpolitik and Moralpolitik of Asoka’s Mauryan Empire
4. Kautilya Reincarnated: Steering Arthasastra toward an Eclectic Theory of International Relations
5. Postlude
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 Advaita as a Global International Relations Theory.