Non-western international politics: Insights from Islamic and Chinese thought

What proposal can studies carried out by means of non-Western societies offer to the present regarding international politics? For the purpose of answering this question, the study will make an examination throughout of thinkers, concepts, case studies, and traditions of thought. Developing a proposed solution to the problem will unquestionably have to take place through awareness. In this regard, the study will consider modern political thought through the concepts of authority, legitimacy, nationalism, modernization, globalization, human rights, and global justice and mention the initiative of non-Western international relations theory, which draws attention to critical discourses on Western centrism in international politics and seeks to reveal new perspectives. This initiative also provides an opportunity to question the essence of international politics. This challenge emphasizes the necessity for multivocality and essentially needs to be convincing and to clarify its argument regarding the problematique. Thought traditions that have the potential to provide alternatives with their knowledge and experience have a critical position. The study will survey the possibility of the emergence of original and new perspectives in international politics using the Islamic and Chinese traditions of thought. The thought traditions that will be analyzed in the discourses to be produced for the crises and dilemmas in the present state of world order will have considerable influence, and the consequences of readdressing the core principles of thought traditions in international politics are intriguing. Keywords: non-Western international politics, Islamic and Chinese political thought, modernization, authority, legitimacy, nationalism, globalization, human rights, global justice.