Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Challenges to the existing IR system and how they are seen in the IR literature in Western and non-Western segments of the world -- Chapter 2: From the hegemonic unipolar to the multipolar world: structural transformation of the international system and global strategic balance, plus its consequences for the future -- Chapter 3: Appraising the theory of non-Western IR and the other options available -- Chapter 4: What is missing in the Western IR theories: space as a core dimension in World Regional Studies -- Chapter 5: Transformation of the space (1): macro-regionalization and new spatial actors of international relations: international world global regions -- Chapter 6: Transformation of the space (2): differentiation within the world space and its consequences for conceptualizing a de-Westernized IR -- Chapter 7: Integration of the space in a complex glocality -- Chapter 8: Fusion of past and future in the space of global regions and regional sub-systems of converging multiple modernities.
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Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Challenges to the existing IR system and how they are seen in the IR literature in Western and non-Western segments of the world -- Chapter 2: From the hegemonic unipolar to the multipolar world: structural transformation of the international system and global strategic balance, plus its consequences for the future -- Chapter 3: Appraising the theory of non-Western IR and the other options available -- Chapter 4: What is missing in the Western IR theories: space as a core dimension in World Regional Studies -- Chapter 5: Transformation of the space (1): macro-regionalization and new spatial actors of international relations: international world global regions -- Chapter 6: Transformation of the space (2): differentiation within the world space and its consequences for conceptualizing a de-Westernized IR -- Chapter 7: Integration of the space in a complex glocality -- Chapter 8: Fusion of past and future in the space of global regions and regional sub-systems of converging multiple modernities.