Do international relations scholars not care about Central and Eastern Europe or do they just take the region for granted? A conclusion to the special issue

How can we explain Central and Eastern Europe’s (CEE) relative absence in the ‘worlding International Relations’(IR) conversation? What does provincializing discipline from CEE might look like? I argue that has been relatively neglected IR’ literature 1) due to local factors, 2) because it have turned into an ‘unimportant other’, 3) history of region challenges macro-categories – ‘West/non-West’, ‘North/South’, ‘core/periphery’ structure this conversation. show how special issue offers promising endeavors provincialize IR are transferable other contexts, for instance small states. Doing so, use as a case study build bridge between different debates contributes making less Eurocentric/parochial field, decentering European produced UK/Scandinavian countries, exploring conditions formulating critiques produces something than problems they denounce.