ASIA AS A KNOWLEDGE PRODUCER IN THE WORLD
https://doi.org/10.18611/2221-3279-2016-7-3(24)-107-120
Abstract
For the past few years many IR scholars focused mainly on the question in what way the rise of Asia could infl uence the post-bipolar world order and world economic system. However with all due attention to the international economic and political transformations, which followed Asia’s rise, IR studies paid little attention to the gap between rising economic and to some extent political role of Asia in the world system and still Western-dominated production of new technological and humanitarian knowledge. This article analyses in the comparative way three efforts to bridge this gap. The fi rst one is an effort to build up an indigenous discourse about Asia. The second refers to the discussion about the possibilities to develop a non-Western IR theory. The third one is connected with the rise of Asian think tanks and universities.
About the Author
E. V. Koldunova
MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Political Science, Associate Professor of the Department for Asian and African Studies, Deputy Dean of the School of Political Affairs, Senior Expert of ASEAN Centre, MGIMO University
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