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Rethinking Totality in International Relations: Coloniality, Continental Genealogy, and Planetary Relationality

2026-05-18

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This article argues that the fragmentation of International Relations (IR) theory is not only a problem of competing schools, but a deeper ontological dispute over social totality. Realism, liberal institutionalism, constructivism, critical theory, post-structuralism, Global IR, and decolonial approaches each assume a different image of world order and of the human subject. Through conceptual genealogy and critica...

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236e3981-b685-5419-b9e7-2fd64e5b6dad
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10.20944/preprints202605.1166.v1
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