ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a standard manual of training in disciplinary international relations (IR). Designing social inquiry by King, Keohane, and Verba or KKV (1994). Though, KKV represents the core concepts and methods, norms and principles of disciplinary IR. Through criteria like parsimony, rigor, and autonomy, KKV extends to social science the protestant ethic, long established by a secular parson like Locke. As taught by KKV via John Locke, Disciplinary IR cannot meet the other on its own terms – even when structures and actors change. The chapter discusses the implications of Koanizing IR, focuses on the four basic components of a Koanic method: questioning assumptions, investigating possibilities for action, breaking through words and letters, and cutting attachment to one's own awakening. Koanizing IR enables what Feyerabend called a "richness of being". Multiplicity and difference can share cognitive and emotional space with singularity and certainty.
