His background assumption is this: IR does “not reflect the voices, experiences … and contributions of the vast majority of the societies and states in the world, and often marginalize those outside the core countries of the West.”20 Yet, instead of arguing for a counter (i.e. [...] In this respect, the Global IR project sets out to safeguard against a tug of war between Western and non-Western IR and the subsumption of one of them in favour of the other. [...] In the case of Korean IR scholarship, we examined the abstracts of all the articles published in the Korean Journal of International Relations (KJIR), the most-cited Korean IR journal, between 2010 and 2020. [...] In other words, despite the facts that the once-dominant positivism has met its demise in the philosophy of science and that the philosophy of science embraces a wide variety of “legitimate” understandings of “science,”42 positivism continues to “usurp” the title of science in IR. [...] Eun this respect, the problem of the dominance of the West in IR is synonymous with the problem of the dominance of positivism.
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