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The Global(izing) IR debate has accumulated a considerable number of ideas and unanswered questions. One of them is how to ensure mutual understanding among epistemic communities, without thwarting their evolution. In this chapter, I propose a model of IR theory production that synthesizes relevant findings of the debate. With this model, I demonstrate that culturally driven IR knowledge proceeds through two stages on its way to becoming a theory, and each stage implies a different type of work, text, methodology and is characterized by its target audience. I take three books by Russian authors aimed at articulation of Russianness in the IR-relevant aspects, and analyze them in terms of the model in order to illustrate its explanatory capacity and to share insight of worlding beyond the West.
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Lydkin, I. (2016). A Model of International Relations (IR) Theory Production: Russian Cases of Worlding. In: Peters, I., Wemheuer-Vogelaar, W. (eds) Globalizing International Relations. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57410-7_3
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