-positivist analyses, contributions by area specialists and China watchers, and articles by Chinese IR scholars. These strands, however …) (Waever/Tickner 2009: 3) and "the periphery's revolt against ["Western"] IR" paradigms (ibid.), it is necessary to view China … metatheoretical debate about the possibility of non-"Western" IR. It argues that even though the IR debates in China are heavily …