Author profile: Shannon Brincat

Dr Shannon Brincat is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, and a co-editor of Global Discourse. His most recent project, The Spiral World, traces dialectical thinking in the Axial Age. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently ‘Che Lives!‘ (Globalizations 2023) and From International Relations to World Civilizations: The contributions of Robert W. Cox and Dialectics and World Politics (Routledge 2017).

Dialectics in Mādhyamaka Buddhism and What It Can Teach International Relations

Shannon Brincat • Jan 25 2024 • Articles

The dialectical approach of Mādhyamaka undercuts theories with a nominalist, atomised ontological foundation, providing insights into our global social life.

Review – Classics of International Relations

Shannon Brincat • Nov 29 2014 • Features

Despite the many stellar chapters in Bliddal, Sylvest and Weston’s volume, it is the exclusions that ultimately reflect the lack of diversity of the IR ‘classics’ field.

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