Sima Sam

Francis Bacon

John Locke

David Hume

Tabula Rogeriana

Gangnido

Simone Mario Santino FRAS, FRHistS, FRSA, FAcSS.

"No method is inherently better than another, but only better or less suited to addressing the specific research question under investigation."

——Sandra Halperin & Oliver Heath

Political scientists/philosophers that interest me

• Amitav Acharya - The Myth of the “Civilization State”: Rising Powers and the Cultural Challenge to World Order
• Samuel Barkin - Realist Constructivism (2003, 2010)
• Shaun Breslin - Handbook of CIR
• Barry Buzan
• Elias Götz - NCR and Russian-Ukrainian relations
• David C. Kang - (2022)
• BM Jain - Geo-psychology in IR (2021)
• Emilian Kavalski - “Guanxi”(关系) and China’s IR
• Peter J.Katzenstein - eclecticism (2010); Rethinking security in East Asia (2004, using analytical eclecticism); Sinicization and the Rise of China (2012)

• Marc Lanteigne - CFP (2020)
• Gregory J. Moore - 'Face' in Sino-Japanese Relations (2010, 2014)
• Norrin M. Ripsman - Neoclassical realism (2009, 2021, 2016)
• Hendrik Spruyt - The World Imagined (2020)
• Jonathan Sullivan - Chinese cyber-nationalism and Foreign policy of Xi Jinping
• Shiping Tang
• Shi Yinhong
• Yuhua Wang - State capacity (2022)
• Tim Winter - Geo-cultural power in the BRI (2021)
• Suisheng Zhao -
  • The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy (2022)
  • A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism (2004)
  • Power Competition in East Asia: From the Old Chinese World Order to Post-cold War Regional Multipolarity (1998)
• Zhao Tingyang - Tianxia

War Studies scholars

• Richard J. Aldrich, Christopher Coker, Andrew Mumford

History

• Chronology of European exploration of Asia
• Comparative studies of the Roman and Han empires
• Christian Müller, Matteo Salonia

Terms

• epistemology
• international order
• intersubjectivity
• Is–ought problem / Fact–value distinction
• Hobbesian anarchy VS Habermasian public sphere
• Liberal international order
• normative power
• parsimony and rigour
• Pluralism (philosophy)
• reification
• Tianxia

Projects

Chinese nationalism

• Jiang, Yuan (July 28, 2021) Chinese Nationalism is More than What You Think, Asia Times.【Jiang (姜源) is a Chinese PhD student in the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. He completed his MA in political science at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and LLB at Shanghai University】
• China’s Online Nationalist Army: How Social Media Users Weaponized Patriotism
• The Rise of Han-Centrism and What It Means for International Politics

Chinese Foreign Policy

• To Understand China’s Aggressive Foreign Policy, Look at Its Domestic Politics
• How China Sees the International Order: A Lesson from the Chinese Classics
• Viewing Chinese foreign policy through the lens of the Chinese classics
• Propaganda in China

Civilizational State

• The Clash Of ‘Civilizational States’

Realism

• Offensive Realism and the Rise of China: A Useful Framework for Analysis?

Books about "Civilizations and IR/FP"

• Wang Gunwu, and Zheng Yongnian, eds. China and the New International Order. Routledge, 2008.
• Suzuki, Shogo. Civilization and Empire: China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society. Routledge, 2009.
• Katzenstein, Peter J., ed. Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives. Routledge, 2009. (Contributors: James Kurth, Emanuel Adler, David C. Kang, David Leheny, Susanne Hoeber Rudoph, Bruce B. Lawrence, and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson)
  • Katzenstein, P. J. (2013). A World of Plural and Pluralist Civilizations. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 77, 15-19.
• Ford, Christopher. The Mind of Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign Relations. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
• Zhang Weiwei. The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State. World Scientific, 2012.
• Katzenstein, Peter J., ed. Sinicization and the Rise of China: Civilizational Processes beyond East and West. Routledge, 2013.
• Brook, Timothy, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, eds. Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
• Coker, Christopher. The Rise of the Civilizational State. 2019.
• Spruyt, Hendrik. The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• Phillips, Andrew, and Christian Reus-Smit, eds. Culture and Order in World Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2020.