Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Within international relations itself, a new culture rises up / Stephen Chan and Peter Mandaville
  • Western stories of war origins / Hidemi Suganami
  • Forget IR theory / Roland Bleiker
  • Seven types of ambiguity in western international relations theory and painful steps towards right ethics / Stephen Chan
  • A story beyond telos : redeeming the shield of Achilles for a realism of rights in IR / Stephen Chan
  • Stories of Priam and Job, the slaughter of their families, and twenty theses on the suggestiveness of good for the person of IR / Stephen Chan
  • Can a declined civilisation be reconstructed? Islamic 'civilisation' or 'civilized' Islam? / Mehdi Mozaffari
  • An Islamic perspective on non-alignment : Iranian foreign policy in theory and practice / Houman A. Sadri
  • East-West stories of war and peace : neorealist claims in the light of ancient Chinese philosophy / Roland Bleiker
  • Selling culture : ancient Chinese conceptions of 'the other' in legends / Qing Cao
  • The Zen master's story and an anatomy of international relations theory / Xiaoming Huang.