Reappraising the Chinese School of International Relations: A postcolonial perspective

Abstract This article aims to revisit the enterprise of Chinese School (CS) IR and discuss how it should be viewed handled in discipline, specifically from within analytical framework power/resistance nexus put forward by Foucault, Bhabha, Spivak. The argument this is twofold. Firstly, CS attempts reinvigorate traditional concepts (that is, humane authority, Tianxia system, relationality), which mimick Western mainstream IR. These channel into a realist notion power, liberal logic cosmopolitanism, constructivist idea relationality. Thus, uses against West themes that currently use non-Western world. Nevertheless, as second part will demonstrate, can still justified because regarded reverse discourse; mimicking yet altering original meanings taken-for-granted concepts, ideas, principles used scholars. Moreover, with judicious strategic essentialism, potentially one local group wider effort contest diffused decentred forms domination through linking various struggles form unified ‘counter-hegemonic bloc’ post-Western discipline.