ABSTRACT
India is a key node in a de facto Asian NATO headed by the United States, so for the realist community on both sides, deeper collaboration, academic and political and justified in the name of sensible international relations (IR) thinking, is inevitable. There are Indian scholars who would consciously buck realism's theoretical grip and comprehensively reject the idea that IR must serve Indian national interests. The critique, methodology and substance of multiple modernities (MM) and post-Western IR go together. MM implies that alongside multiple diversities there is a common core across differences relating to institutions mainly economic and political created by the history and legacies of European colonial expansionism across the world. But even these function in ways different from their operation in the West. MM and post-Western IR enthusiasts in their culturally biased analytical frameworks give pride of place to the notion of "social hybridities" as the defining characteristic of the modern world order.
