ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates that the conceptual evolution of 'international politics' in Eurocentric International Relations (IR) is generally based on a particular understanding of reality—specifically, the ontological reality of phenomenal world. In Advaita, the methodology to modify dualist experience of 'multiplicity of being' is called 'subration'. The dualist understanding of international politics in Eurocentric IR assumes the world as a product of 'installable relationships'. On the contrary, the monist understanding of international politics in Advaita approaches the world as an 'always-already existing connectedness'. Contrary to the 'subjectified' time and space in Kantian antinomies, the philosophy of Advaita confers the prospects of 'objectified' designs of time and space which rationally spread across both the so-called world-of-appearance and world-in-itself. The relations between the constituents of the world cannot be understood by following a rigid unit-of-analysis or level-of-enquiry: individuals and institutions at any political level bear the same symptom of 'connectedness'.
