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Behera (Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, National Islamic U., India) observes that the evolution and contours of the epistemic foundations of the field of international relations [IR] in the South Asian context have remained largely unexamined and that the disciplinary boundaries of IR theory are ontologically and epistemologically constituted so as to largely silence voices form the peripheries. Therefore, the purpose of this volume is to debate within a South Asian context the foundational claims of what constitutes international relations, its inclusions and exclusions, and its boundaries. Specific topics include the case for critical security studies in South Asia; pluralism, democracy, and ethnic conflict resolution in Sri Lanka; the Westphalian state in South Asia; constructivist understanding of intra-state/inter-state conflicts in South Asia; the agent-structure problem and India's external security policy; linkages between rights and security in South Asia; and critiques of contemporary liberal IR theory from a South Asian standpoint. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
