How can we explain Central and Eastern Europe’s (CEE) relative absence in the ‘worlding International Relations’(IR) conversation? What does provincializing the discipline from CEE might look like? I argue that CEE has been relatively neglected in the ‘worlding IR’ literature 1) due to local factors, 2) because it might have been turned into an ‘unimportant other’, 3) and because the history of the region challenges the macro-categories – ‘West/non-West’, ‘North/South’, ‘core/periphery’ – that structure this conversation. I show how the special issue offers promising endeavors to provincialize IR that are transferable to other contexts, for instance small states. Doing so, I use CEE as a case study to build a bridge between the special issue and the different debates it contributes to – making IR a less Eurocentric/parochial field, decentering European IR from the IR produced in UK/Scandinavian countries, and exploring the conditions of formulating critiques that produces something other than the problems they denounce.

我们如何解释中欧和东欧（CEE）在“世界性国际关系”（IR）对话中的相对缺席？将 CEE 的学科省域化会是什么样子？我认为中东欧在“世界 IR”文献中相对被忽视 1) 由于当地因素，2) 因为它可能已经变成了“不重要的其他”，3) 并且因为该地区的历史挑战了宏观类别——“西/非西”、“北/南”、“核心/外围”——构成了这个对话。我展示了特刊如何提供有希望的努力，以将可转移到其他环境（例如小州）的 IR 省级化。这样做，我使用 CEE 作为案例研究，在特刊和它促成的不同辩论之间架起一座桥梁——使 IR 成为一个不那么以欧洲为中心/狭隘的领域，