This 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.

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Seifudein Adem is Professor of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Japan, and Research Associate at the Ali Mazrui Center for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously he was Associate Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, USA.

Inhalt

Part 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