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Do you agree that liberal international theories are essentially ‘Eurocentric’ and not necessarily imperialist?

  • UPSC 2012
  • 12 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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The proposition separates two charges that post-colonial critics often merge. John M. Hobson's The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics (2012) draws exactly this line: Western international theory is pervasively Eurocentric, but that Eurocentrism comes in an imperialist (paternalist) and an anti-imperialist form. The claim largely holds, with one important caveat.

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  • Why liberal theory is Eurocentric
  • Why it is not necessarily imperialist
  • The imperial strand nonetheless
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