Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary

Abstract

Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan’s The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at its Centenary is a sophisticated survey of the history of modern international relations and the discipline of International Relations (IR) from the perspective of Global IR. The authors embark upon a project to embrace greater pluralism and overcome the Western hegemony in IR. The book covers the international and disciplinary histories from the nineteenth century to the present. Its overall argument is that the evolution of IR has mirrored that of modern international relations. Accordingly, the authors examine what they call versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 of Global International Society (GIS) and their consecutive parallels in IR in ten tight-knit chapters.