Radicalizing global IR Beyond Capitalism and Eurocentrism Eren Duzgun

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duzgun, Eren, 1981- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in international relations

Cambridge elements. Elements in international relations, 2515-706X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"What if the deepest resources for globalizing IR lie not in capitalist modernity, but in humanity’s much older struggles against hierarchy? This Element argues that Global IR cannot become genuinely anti-Eurocentric unless it breaks decisively with “methodological presentism”: the tendency to read the past in terms of the present. Engaging Global IR debates, and drawing on Karl Polanyi, Political Marxism, and evolutionary anthropology, the Element offers a non-presentist macro-historical narrative. It mobilizes deep history to trace the millennia-old human capacities to refuse domination, pursue autonomy, and sustain cooperation, thereby inviting readers to fundamentally rethink the sources of human interconnectedness and solidarity. On this basis, it proposes “radical modernity”, rooted in the prehistoric legacy of “radical egalitarianism”, as an alternative to capitalist modernity. Radical modernity is not a Western achievement later diffused to the non-Western world, but an alternative foundation for rethinking universality, difference, and the “international” from below"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Global IR : Postcolonialism and the antinomies of anti-Eurocentrism

Karl Polanyi : Rethinking universality beyond market society

Political Marxism : Reclaiming humanity and radical modernity

Conclusion : Towards a global IR from below

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 6, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Duzgun, Eren, 1981- Radicalizing global IR

ISBN:

9781009656009

1009656007

OCLC:

1603158659

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license