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The Interactions of International Relation: Racism, Colonialism, Producer-Centred-Research
Dr Deep K Datta Ray Visiting Senior Fellow
Dr Deep K Datta Ray
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Commissioned by SCOPUS journal All Azimuth and currently under review, this article engages the colonial methodology of the discipline of International Relations (IR) and proposes the Producer-Centred-Research model as a solution. IR’s inductive and deductive methods are demonstrated to be racist at inception, thereby rendering the discipline colonial – that is, imposing core values upon the global periphery. This is why PCR is formulated for its approach is abductive and so initiated by not core concerns but the dissonance between them and the subject. This is resolved in terms of rationality recast in the plural as rationalities, and then determining if they exist by treating peripheral actors as rational. In short, evidence for rationalities is collected and made sense of in peripheral, rather than core, terms, and located in practitioner’s history. The article concludes by verifying PCR’s efficacy.
| Theme: | Conflict and Stability / International Politics and Security / Non-Traditional Security |
| Region: | Europe / Global |
| Entity: | RSIS |
