ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the analytical weakness of the idea of 'non-Western national traditions' where international relations (IR) has been institutionalized, has international origins and is sub-nationally diverse. It also shows how the narrative of Western dominance merges 'the international' and 'the national' and fails to perceive them as two distinct spaces of professional engagement and struggle. The chapter exposes the state of IR sub-national diversity in Brazil before doing the same for India. It presents few cases for which the 'post-Western' diversification of 'Global IR' clashes with Indian and Brazilian primary and everyday concerns for emancipation and diversification in their national spaces. Finally, the chapter focuses on the perceptions of Indian and Brazilian scholars and how they relieve their experiences, and the meaning they give to the objects 'national' and 'international' contradicts the narrative of Western dominance, thereby challenging the implicit projections within this discourse.
