Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: Within International Relations Itself, a New Culture Rises Up

Stephen Chan

Peter Mandaville

Part I Establishing a Debate

Western (?) Stories of War Origins

Hidemi Suganami

Forget IR Theory

Roland Bleiker

Part II Attempting to Form the Debate

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

Part III The Inclination of Middle Eastern Civilisation

Can a Declined Civilisation be Reconstructed? Islamic `Civilisation' or `Civilised' Islam?

Mehdi Mozaffari

An Islamic Perspective on Non-Alignment: Iranian Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice

Houman A. Sadri

Part IV The Zen of International Relations

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

Bibliographical Note: Has Chinese IR Progressed?

Wang Yi

Index