Una perspectiva no eurocéntrica para el estudio de las Relaciones Internacionales: el este de Asia

Abstract

This article offers to the reader an approximation to a historical reality which was until recentrly relegated, or even forgotten, by the Social scientists and the International Relations specialistin a particular, due to the preponderance of the imposed precepts and fundaments of the so called "western civilization"; the one of the eastern Asia. This "eurocentrism", which even nowadays leads the approaches and perspectives from which social phenomena -both national and international, present or past- are studied, represents a dense veil that hinders our vision of parallel or even older realities than the Western. Thus, taking the specific cases of China, Japan and Korea, the author presents a different approach which allows the visualization of the complex and diverse world of the 21st century.