The underlying theme throughout the papers is a question of why (not) we need international theory with the standpoint outside the West. This working Paper joins in an increasingly important epistemological debate in the discipline of International Relations (IR) on how academics and practitioners alike may overcome the hegemony of both western and non western IR theories in order to tell the world about the world. Rather than soeaking with one voice, you will find substantial disagreements among the contributors who are nevertheless united by their concerns about IR knowledge production in a "no-so-international" discipline.