Introduction

within international relations itself, a new culture rises up

Stephen Chan, Peter Mandaville

1-14

Western (?) stories of war origins

Hidemi Suganami

17-36

Forget IR theory

Roland Bleiker

37-66

Seven types of ambiguity in Western international relations theory and painful steps towards right ethics

Stephen Chan

69-78

A story beyond telos

redeeming the shield of Achilles for a realism of rights in IR

Stephen Chan

79-98

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

99-126

Can a declined civilisation be reconstructed?

Islamic "civilisation" or "civilised" Islam?

Mehdi Mozaffari

129-156

An Islamic perspective on non-alignment

iranian foreign policy in theory and practice

Sadri

157-174

East-West stories of war and peace

neorealist claims in light of ancient Chinese philosophy

Roland Bleiker

177-201

Selling culture

ancient Chinese conceptions of "the other" in legends

Qing Cao

202-221

The Zen master's story and an anatomy of international relations theory

Xiaoming Huang

222-243