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The politics of teaching International Relations in the Arab world : reading Walt in Beirut, Wendt in Doha, and Abul-Fadl in Cairo

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Date
11/2021
Author
Darwich, May
Valbjørn, Morten
Salloukh, Bassel F
Hazbun, Waleed
Samra, Amira Abu
Saddiki, Said
Saouli, Adham
Albloshi, Hamad H
Makdisi, Karim
Keywords
International relations
Teaching
Pedagogy
Arab world
Global/Post-Western IR
JZ International relations
LB2300 Higher Education
T-NDAS
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Abstract
Can International Relations (IR) as it is taught in the Arab world be said to be an “American social science” or is it taught differently in different places? The forum addresses this question through an exploration of what and how scholars at Arab universities are teaching IR and how institutional, historical, and linguistic, as well as political and individual factors shape classroom dynamics in the Arab world. This forum attempts to bring the classroom into the Global/Post-Western debate by showing how IR can be taught differently in different places with a focus on a region under-represented in IR debates: the Arab world. The essays, exhibiting diversity in pedagogical strategies and theoretical perspectives, provide a window into how the “international” is perceived and taught locally by teachers and students in various Arab contexts. While the influence from the American “core” of the discipline is obvious, the forum documents how the theoretical and conceptual foundations of IR based on Western perspectives and history do not travel intact. The essays collectively provide evidence of different kinds of IRs not just across but also within regions and show that studying pedagogy can become a way to study how disciplinary IR varies contextually.
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Darwich , M , Valbjørn , M , Salloukh , B F , Hazbun , W , Samra , A A , Saddiki , S , Saouli , A , Albloshi , H H & Makdisi , K 2021 , ' The politics of teaching International Relations in the Arab world : reading Walt in Beirut, Wendt in Doha, and Abul-Fadl in Cairo ' , International Studies Perspectives , vol. 22 , no. 4 , ekaa020 , pp. 407–438 . https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekaa020
Publication
International Studies Perspectives
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekaa020
ISSN
1528-3577
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) (2021). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25331

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