Abstract
ABSTRACT The study of social sciences in general and the discipline of international relations (IR) in particular always remain areas of less scholarly significance, because the leading academic circles remain less inclined towards the non-Western production of knowledge in the international system. The main discussions of IR generally revolve around Western discourses and approaches to knowledge. The end of the decades-long Cold War and the elimination of the Soviet Union from world politics allowed Western academic circles to influence the production of knowledge in the international system. In this way, the production of knowledge and the promotion of knowledge have ignored non-Western academic perspectives. Contrary to conventional academic patterns, there is a need to realize the significance of non-Western literature in academia while updating the conventional academic patterns. In this scenario, this paper attempts to address the questions of the production of knowledge and promotion of knowledge on the basis of alternative perspectives and different approaches to acquiring knowledge. While emphasizing non-Western or non-American approaches to knowledge, the central theme of the paper endeavours to highlight the importance of non-Western ways of looking at world politics.
Highlights
The question of understanding the contesting attributes of the international system remained unanswered in the presence of a few western theoretical domains
The production of knowledge and the maintenance of knowledge in the social sciences are generally considered as values of western societies which predominantly try to define the conceptual foundations of the leading academic areas
The working of the international system coupled with various formats of cooperation and conflict between leaders and their respective states maintains their theoretical description under the field of International Relations (IR). (Ransom, 1968) An analytical survey and rational understanding for the appropriate understanding of the above-mentioned characteristics of IR
Summary
The question of understanding the contesting attributes of the international system remained unanswered in the presence of a few western theoretical domains. (Plantan, 2002) In this way, the interaction of IR as an academic discipline tries to generously study the different contesting viewpoints of opposing schools of thought irrespective of their western and nonwestern origin. The discipline of IR mainly focuses on intra-state and inter-state political, social, economic, strategic, and cultural developments In this way, the working of the international system coupled with various formats of cooperation and conflict between leaders and their respective states maintains their theoretical description under the field of IR. The availability of different approaches or familiarity with contesting themes of IR has become a difficult task In this way, the overall contents of IR reflect a distorted picture in which a single approach to study world politics based on western orientations always available. The theoretical explanation of the paper can adequately be studied under the notion of relativism
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