International Relations from the Global South: Worlds of Difference

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This exciting new textbook challenges the implicit notions inherent in most existing International Relations (IR) scholarship and instead presents the subject as seen from different vantage points in the global South. Divided into four sections, (1) the IR discipline, (2) key concepts and categories, (3) global issues and (4) IR futures, it examines the ways in which world politics have been addressed by traditional core approaches and explores the limitations of these treatments for understanding both Southern and Northern experiences of the "international." The book encourages readers to consider how key ideas have been developed in the discipline, and through systematic interventions by contributors from around the globe, aims at both transforming and enriching the dominant terms of scholarly debate. This empowering, critical and reflexive tool for thinking about the diversity of experiences of international relations and for placing them front and center in the classroom will help professors and students in both the global North and the global South envision the world differently. In addition to general, introductory IR courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels it will appeal to courses on sociology and historiography of knowledge, globalization, neoliberalism, security, the state, imperialism and international political economy. Cover Endorsements Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of boxes List of contributors Preface 1. Introduction: International Relations from the global South PART 1: Discipline 2. The global IR debate in the classroom 3. Where, when and what is IR? 4. IR and the making of the white man’s world PART 2: Concepts 5. Order, ordering and disorder 6. The international 7. War and conflict 8. State and sovereignty 9. Religion, secularism and nationalism 10. Security 11. Foreign policy PART 3: Issues 12. Globalization 13. Inequality 14. Migration 15. Resistances 16. Socio-environmentalism PART 4: Futures 17. South–South talk Index