Raoul Bunskoek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raoul Bunskoek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raoul |
| FAMILY NAME | Bunskoek |
| SIGNATURE | BUNSKOEK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3347-0239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Practising Pluriversalism in Africa
This special section examines how African and non-African actors, including Chinese and Western, co-produce knowledge through pluralistic encounters. Emphasizing pluriversalism, it challenges Eurocentric universalism and highlights diverse epistemologies and agency. Drawing on case studies from Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya, it contributes to decolonizing knowledge and advancing post-Western International Relations theory
Party Time
The literature on transnational professionals (TPs) focuses on transnational structures and practices that are professionally defined. In this article, we start with the observation that Chinese TP lifeworlds in Africa diverge significantly from the ones described in the TP literature. We argue that TP lifeworlds “beyond the Anglosphere” and the practices they produce require more attention to understand the future of transnational governance in …
‘Community of Common Destiny’ as Post-Western Regionalism
Conventional explanations of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) focus on how the BRI will be in China’s interest, how it will strengthen China’s geopolitical position, or a combination of the two. We argue that such views are limited because they merely interpret the BRI through ‘Western’ IR lenses. This paper ‘re-worlds’ China by using the BRI as a case study to illustrate how in the discursive field(s) of China’s elite, China as a Westphali…
China and International Theory
Major IR theories, which stress that actors will inevitably only seek to enhance their own interests, tend to contrive binaries of self and other and 'inside' and 'outside'. By contrast, this book recognizes the general need of all to relate, which they do through various imagined resemblances between them. The authors of this book therefore propose the 'balance of relationships' (BoR) as a new international relations theory to transcend binary w…
Towards global relational theorizing
What is ‘relational theorizing’ in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing is not a doctrine or a method, but a set of analyses that begin with relations rather than the putative essences of constitutively autonomous actors. Second, relational theorizing has emerged from different geo-linguistic traditions, and a …
Towards global relational theorizing
What is ‘relational theorizing’ in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing is not a doctrine or a method, but a set of analyses that begin with relations rather than the putative essences of constitutively autonomous actors. Second, relational theorizing has emerged from different geo-linguistic traditions, and a …
China and International Theory
Major IR theories, which stress that actors will inevitably only seek to enhance their own interests, tend to contrive binaries of self and other and 'inside' and 'outside'. By contrast, this book recognizes the general need of all to relate, which they do through various imagined resemblances between them. The authors of this book therefore propose the 'balance of relationships' (BoR) as a new international relations theory to transcend binary w…
Towards global relational theorizing
What is ‘relational theorizing’ in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing is not a doctrine or a method, but a set of analyses that begin with relations rather than the putative essences of constitutively autonomous actors. Second, relational theorizing has emerged from different geo-linguistic traditions, and a …
‘Community of Common Destiny’ as Post-Western Regionalism
Conventional explanations of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) focus on how the BRI will be in China’s interest, how it will strengthen China’s geopolitical position, or a combination of the two. We argue that such views are limited because they merely interpret the BRI through ‘Western’ IR lenses. This paper ‘re-worlds’ China by using the BRI as a case study to illustrate how in the discursive field(s) of China’s elite, China as a Westphali…
Party Time
The literature on transnational professionals (TPs) focuses on transnational structures and practices that are professionally defined. In this article, we start with the observation that Chinese TP lifeworlds in Africa diverge significantly from the ones described in the TP literature. We argue that TP lifeworlds “beyond the Anglosphere” and the practices they produce require more attention to understand the future of transnational governance in …
Practising Pluriversalism in Africa
This special section examines how African and non-African actors, including Chinese and Western, co-produce knowledge through pluralistic encounters. Emphasizing pluriversalism, it challenges Eurocentric universalism and highlights diverse epistemologies and agency. Drawing on case studies from Rwanda, Ghana, and Kenya, it contributes to decolonizing knowledge and advancing post-Western International Relations theory
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work) · China's Global Influence and Migration (1 work) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 work)