The primary purpose of this article is to advance the ongoing global international relations (Global IR) debate and to offer some possible paths toward Global IR 2.0. To this end, this article first analyzes how Global IR has emerged, what contributions it makes to giving new impetus to IR knowledge (production), and, more importantly, what charges are leveled against Global IR. Although Global IR has produced an important body of scholarship, contributing substantially to identifying West-centrism as a key point of contention in IR and nudging the discipline toward theoretical pluralism, Global IR in its current form still carries the risk of reinforcing the old hierarchical and essentialized structure of knowledge production in ways that are analytic, epistemological, and ontological. Following this critical mapping exercise, I argue that while Global IR can serve as a key signifier of challenge to West-centrism, this important signifier needs to be redefined in terms of what it indicates and means—thereby becoming Global IR 2.0. In onto-epistemological terms, Global IR 2.0 relates more directly to questioning and dissolving essentialized ways of knowing in the discipline. In the final section of this article, I elaborate on how to realize this idea and harness it in practice.

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IR 中超越西方中心主义的知识生产：迈向全球 IR 2.0

本文的主要目的是推进正在进行的全球国际关系 (Global IR) 辩论，并提供一些通往 Global IR 2.0 的可能途径。为此，本文首先分析了 Global IR 是如何产生的，它对 IR 知识（生产）的新动力有何贡献，更重要的是，对 Global IR 提出了哪些指控。尽管全球国际关系产生了一个重要的学术体系，对将西方中心主义确定为国际关系中的一个关键争论点并推动学科走向理论多元化做出了重大贡献，但目前形式的全球国际关系仍然存在强化旧的等级制度和以分析的、认识论的和本体论的方式将知识生产的本质化结构。在这个关键的映射练习之后，我认为，虽然全球 IR 可以作为挑战西方中心主义的关键标志，但这个重要的标志需要根据它的含义和意义重新定义——从而成为全球 IR 2.0。在本体认识论方面，Global IR 2.0 更直接地涉及质疑和消解学科中的本质化认识方式。在本文的最后一节中，我详细阐述了如何实现这个想法并在实践中利用它。