تدريس العلاقات الدولية في العالم العربي: الإشكاليات المعرفية والنظرية

Translated title of the contribution: Teaching international relations in the Arab world: knowledge production and theoretical challenges

Bassel F. Salloukh, May Darwich

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Abstract

How is International Relations (IR) taught in the Arab World? What happens to what was once labelled an ‘American Social Science’ when it enters classrooms in the Arab world and is taught in Arabic? Despite the predominance of Western approaches and theories on the teaching of IR in the Arab World, there is tension between the need to train students in the classical theories as a prerequisite for knowledge production, and the need to adapt them to various political, social, and economic contexts across the globe. This study examines the different approaches to how IR is taught in Arab universities, and how Western theories are considered critically by the teaching of alternative approaches. The paper argues that the different approaches to teaching IR are more versatile methodologically than the range of published papers in leading academic journals in the West. As such, they may prove to be the starting point for new forms of knowledge production that better reflect the realities of international relations in the Arab world.
Translated title of the contributionTeaching international relations in the Arab world: knowledge production and theoretical challenges
Original languageArabic
Pages (from-to)78-93
JournalSiyasat Arabiya
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Mar 2023

Bibliographical note

Part of Special Issue: The State of Political Science in the Arab World (2): International Relations. Guest Editor: Abdelwahab El-Affendi

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