The Kyoto School and International Relations

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'By collapsing the past and the future into the present, Kosuke Shimizu's thrilling reflections on the Kyoto School leave no escape from responsibility to any soul -- neither the philosopher inspiring conquest and oppression of the mind and body, nor, by inference, the scientist inventing mass as well as precision kill devices -- fine with authorities murdering after weaponizing knowledge.'

Chih-yu Shih, Professor of International Relations, National Taiwan University

'Through the lens of the Kyoto School, Kosuke Shimizu offers a far-ranging examination of the promises and pitfalls of Non-Western IR theorizing -- promises because of its novel conceptualization of time and space and the pragmatic non-resolution of conflicts; pitfalls because of its eventual surrender to the realist and liberal ontology and discourse of Westphalia. Scholars of global and Western IR will learn immensely from this book.'

Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University, USA

'In this insightful and well researched book, Kosuke Shimizu skillfully illustrates the dangers of naive attempts to transcend Western modernity by providing a cautionary tale of the Kyoto School. Highly recommended for anyone working on postwestern approaches to IR.'

Giorgio Shani, Chair of the Religion and Politics Research Committee of IPSA, UK, and the Director of Rotary Peace Center of the International Christian University, Japan

'Kosuke Shimizu's intuitive analysis of the Kyoto School should give the proponents of 'non-Western IR' approaches a pause to consider this cautionary tale: that 'scholarship' is never only about scholarship, for there is always politics involved; and that attempts to construct theories about international relations while overlooking its relationality may be destined to repeat past mistakes.'

Pinar Bilgin, Professor of International Relations, Bilkent University, Turkey