ABSTRACT
The introduction to this volume set out a discussion about the place of knowledge production in IR outside the global core. As argued there, IR in the periphery has often been the concern of academic enquiry only in relation to what it can offer to the discipline at the core. One strand of academic enquiry has attempted to search for critical understandings in the discipline that are not available in the West. Another has sought to ask why there is no IR theory in other geocultural settings. This way, Western IR engaged with scholars in the periphery either as first-hand accounts of the state of the art of the discipline outside the core or as subaltern voices that may offer critical understandings to the discipline in the West.
