國立政治大學 國際關係研究中心

日期：2025年11月10日

時間：14:00-17:00

地點：政大國關中心圖書暨會議大樓1樓-新簡報室(台北市文山區萬壽路64號 )

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主辦單位：政治大學國際關係研究中心、政治大學國際事務學院東亞研究所 

協辦單位：政治大學國際事務學院中共國際戰略研究中心 

補助單位：教育部大專院校人文與社會科學領域標竿計畫
(The Humanities and Social Sciences Benchmark Program, Ministry of Education) 

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This workshop develops the proposal for a special issue on International Relations of Mind and Body, framed through Buddhism and Chinese medicine. Whereas most IR scholarship treats personhood abstractly—as citizen, subject, or rational actor—mind–body traditions foreground the embodied, spiritual, and cosmological dimensions of subjectivity. Both Buddhism and Chinese medicine articulate universality not as an external order but as a cosmos already immanent in the body. This shift enables us to reconceive “pluriversalism” as intrapersonal pluriverses, expanding IR’s horizons beyond state- or system-centered frameworks.

The special issue seeks to generate conceptual payoffs: personhood as cosmos (qi, dependent origination, emptiness); ethics and governance as practices of harmonization and balance; and epistemologies that decenter rationalist IR not by adding “non-Western” voices, but by reconfiguring its foundations. Contributors from IR, philosophy, medical humanities, and religious studies will be invited to engage across four themes: 
(1) philosophical foundations of mind–body unity; 
(2) comparative horizons for sovereignty, agency, and ethics; 
(3) embodied IR as a challenge to state ontology; and 
(4) applications in peacebuilding, ecology, and health diplomacy.

The key challenges for participants will be to avoid exoticizing Buddhism and Chinese medicine, and to articulate their relevance to international relations rather than leaving them as cultural philosophy. Addressing these challenges will allow the issue to make a distinctive pluriversal contribution: showing how alternative cosmologies of self and world can reshape the theory and practice of IR.