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11 - Unearthing the Coloniality in the International through the Genealogy of IR in Japan and Beyond

from Part III - Global History and the Imperial Fundaments of International Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2023

By
Tomoko Akami
Edited by
Klaus Schlichte  and
Stephan Stetter
Klaus Schlichte
Affiliation:
Universität Bremen
Stephan Stetter
Affiliation:
Universität der Bundeswehr München
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Summary

This chapter identifies the notion of the International as the core concept of the inter- (nation) state system, which had so far defined the disciplinary knowledge of IR. It argues that Euro-centricity of the disciplinary knowledge of IR is closely connected to this inter-state-centred notion, which had become ‘a-colonial’ and ‘apolitical’, and that an historical unearthing of its neglected colonial legacies is crucial for globalizing this knowledge. The chapter, therefore, pays an attention to neglected imperial polities, and suggests two ways for retrieving them. First, it suggests the framing of inter-imperial/inter-colonial, which could capture complex lateral relationships across diverse forms of imperial polities, and which had otherwise been missed by the framing of inter-national. Second, it locates colonial policy studies in the genealogy of IR in Japan, and suggests its ambiguous legacy for the disciplinary knowledge of IR after World War II in Japan, and possibly beyond.

Keywords

Genealogy of IR. colonial policy studiesthe Internationalimperial polityIR of Japan
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The Historicity of International Politics
Imperialism and the Presence of the Past
 , pp. 227 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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