This is an introduction to the JIRD special issue "Uses of 'the East' in international studies: provincialising IR from Central and Eastern Europe". The special issue makes a twofold contribution. Our first aim is to take stock of the uses of ‘the East’ in the scholarship of politics and international relations in order to account for the relative silence about CEE in the debates on ‘worlding IR’. Our second objective is to explore what provincialising the discipline from CEE might look like. Combining bibliometric, historical, ethnographic and discourse-analytic methods with the participants’ ‘deep hanging’ in the fields of IR and CEE area studies, this special issue is both an empirical stock-taking exercise of the disciplinary traffic patterns between the CEE area studies and IR theoretical debates, and a critical attempt at theorising the interaction between these discrete academic fields of study and research.

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国际研究中“东方”的使用：将中欧和东欧的 IR 地方化

这是对 JIRD 特刊“国际研究中‘东方’的使用：中欧和东欧的地方化 IR”的介绍。特刊有双重贡献。我们的第一个目标是评估“东方”在政治和国际关系学术研究中的使用，以便解释在“世界国际关系”辩论中对中东欧的相对沉默。我们的第二个目标是探索从中东欧地区化学科可能会是什么样子。本期特刊将文献计量学、历史学、民族志学和话语分析方法与参与者在 IR 和 CEE 地区研究领域的“深度悬垂”相结合，既是对 CEE 地区研究之间的学科交通模式的实证盘点。和 IR 理论辩论，