Emilian Kavalski is the NAWA Chair Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) and the Book Series Editor for Routledge’s “Rethinking Asia and International Relations” series. His work explores the interconnections between the simultaneous decentering of International Relations by post-Western perspectives and non-anthropocentric approaches. Emilian is the author of four books, including The Guanxi of Relational International Theory (Routledge 2018) and he is the editor of twelve volumes, including World Politics at the Edge of Chaos (State University of New York Press, 2016).