Reflexive Solidarity: Toward a Broadening of What It Means to be “Scientific” in Global IR Knowledge

Yong-soo EUN

doi:https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1024925

Article Details

Reflexive Solidarity: Toward a Broadening of What It Means to be “Scientific” in Global IR Knowledge

Authors:

Yong-soo EUN

Publisher:

Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Main Topics:

International relations

Journal:

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2022 Vol.11 Issue 1, pp.107-122

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2022

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000664259

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2757-9026

pISSN:

2146-7757

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1024925

Abstract:

 

This article shows that the problem of “West-centrism” in the study of International Relations (IR) is synonymous with the problem of the dominance of positivism, a particular version of science that originated in the modern West. How can we open up this double parochialism in IR? The article calls for reflexive solidarity as a way out. This indicates that on-going Global IR projects need to revamp their geography-orientated approaches and instead seek solidarity with other marginalised scholars irrespective of their geographical locations or geocultural backgrounds to build wide avenues in which not only positivist (i.e., causal-explanatory) inferences but also normative theorising and ethnographically attuned approaches are all accepted as different but equally scientific ways of knowing in IR. As a useful way of going about this reflexive solidarity, this article suggests autobiography.

Article Details

Reflexive Solidarity: Toward a Broadening of What It Means to be “Scientific” in Global IR Knowledge

Authors: Yong-soo EUN

Publisher: Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Main Topics: International relations

Journal: All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2022 Vol.11 Issue 1, pp.107-122

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2022

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000664259

Frequency: Bi-Annual

eISSN: 2757-9026

pISSN: 2146-7757

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1024925

Issues

Authors:

Yong-soo EUN

Publisher:

Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, İhsan Doğramacı Peace Foundation

Main Topics:

International relations

Journal:

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 2022 Vol.11 Issue 1, pp.107-122

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2022

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000664259

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

2757-9026

pISSN:

2146-7757

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20991/allazimuth.1024925