Non-Western Reflection on Politics.
Title:
Non-Western Reflection on Politics.
Author:
Drulak, Petr.
ISBN:
9783653034226
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: For a Global Dialogue - Petr Drulák -- Core-Periphery Knowledge Exchange: The Case of Latin America - Arlene B. Tickner -- Politics of Back-Scratching in Camero on and Beyond - Francis Nyamnjoh -- Islamic Democracy: A Contradiction in Terms? - Petr Kratochvíl -- Chinese Political Metaphysics: The Book of Changes - Petr Drulák -- The Liberation Project: A Mexican Experience - Šárka Moravcová -- Chieftaincy and Political Culture: The Case of Ghana - Petr Skalník -- Dar al-islam, Dar al-harb and Hijra: Classical Paradigms in Modern Arab World - Miloš Mendel -- Chinese Traditional Culture and East Asian Security Cooperation - Wang Fan -- Dependence Theory: Comparing Latin America and Africa - Miroslav Jurásek -- Human Rights and Islam: Constitutional Debates in Egypt and Tunisia - Zora Hesová -- Multilateralism: United States and Japan - Michal Kolmaš -- Conclusion: Between Traditionalism and Westernisation - Šárka Moravcová -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Recent rise of the non-Western parts of the world makes the need for a genuine global dialogue more urgent than ever before. To take an effective part in it, the West needs to face a conceptual challenge. The Western understanding of the political world is based on such deeply ingrained concepts as power, politics, statecraft, cooperation, multilateralism, dependence, identity or human rights. The Westerners tend to wrongly assume that everyone else is bound to share these concepts. This book shows that the reality is different. Investigating African, Asian, Islamic and Latin American political thinking, the book introduces non-Western concepts of politics as well as non-Western readings of seemingly familiar Western concepts. By doing this, it points to the obstacles to the global dialogue as well as to opportunities which may be exploited.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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