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Book SynopsisThis book introduces Ali Mazrui’s delightfully stimulating scholarship about intercultural relations, calling it Postcolonial Constructivism, and shares elements of his intellectual vitality in an original way. It begins with a chronicle of Mazrui’s eventful, sixty-year journey as a scholar of International Relations. It then proceeds to present some of the most remarkable yet least remarked up on features of his intellectualism, including his paradoxes, his perceptive typologies, his neologisms as well as his interactions with historical figures. The book draws on materials which were either unavailable until now or were found scattered in time and space. Designed as an invitation to a wider audience to the supermarket of Mazrui’s ideas, this book also seeks to underscore the timeliness and possible durability of many of his observations about intercultural relations.Thorough, comprehensive and up-to-date, this book is a concise account of the core of Mazrui’s vast body of work.
Trade Review“Postcolonial Constructivism: Mazrui’s Theory of Intercultural Relations, is … very welcome news. … A major contribution of this book is that it uniquely enriches the taxonomies of constructivism in IR. … this book is a must-read for those concerned with the alternative and reflexive analysis in IR, beyond Eurocentric approaches. … Adem’s book on Ali Mazrui has great potential for enriching the ontological and epistemological territories of scholarship both by introducing Mazrui as a formidable public intellectual and IR scholar.” (Selman Emre Gürbüz, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, May 9, 2022)
Table of ContentsPart I General Overview
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part II Ali Mazrui and the Study of International Relations (IR)\
Chapter 2 The Birth of a Scholar
Chapter 3 Mazrui’s Rise and Decline in IR
Chapter 4 Mazrui’s Revival in IR
Part III Ali Mazrui’s Postcolonial Constructivismm
Chapter 5 Postcolonialism
Chapter 6 Constructivism
Chapter 7 Postcolonial Constructivism
Part IV The Vocabulary of Ali Mazrui’s Discourse
Chapter 8 Paradoxical Propositions
Chapter 9 Analytical Categories
Part V Semi-Autobiographical Data
Chapter 10 Mazrui’s Interactions with Others
