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'Almost all International Relations theory is produced by the West,…
'Almost all International Relations theory is produced by the West, and rests on the assumption that western history is world history' (Acharya and Buzan, 2007: 209) Discuss
Basics
Its discourse cannot be applied globally as it persistently omits those security and economic issues which are of great concern for most part of the world population.
Needs to go beyond the Western boundaries towards the “South” or “East” of the world by re-introducing the roles of cultures and identities as essential in the analysis of world politics
‘West’ can be understood in both its geographical and ideological connotations, refers to the western part of the world and also to those set of ideas and meanings brought by the Cold War conflict between the West and the East and by the need of the West to define itself in accordance to another entity
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Point One- History
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The analysis of the patterns of war and peace and of the balance of power, has become the core of IR, limiting the scope of this social discipline to an ahistorical account and analysis of conflicts
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Point Four- Perception
Huntington’s (1993) concludes that we are now living in an insecure world in which new security threats are being created out of the constant clash between the West and the ‘rest’, with the latter being pictured as a fomenter of evil and backwardness.
IR identity formation and its vision of the world as being dominated by the West whose stability is threatened by the non-West
Today most of the people in the West would associate the word terrorist with the image of a bearded Arab man with a rucksack on his shoulders.