International Relations from the Global South

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: International Relations from the Global South

Karen Smith and Arlene B. Tickner

PART I: DISCIPLINE

2. The Global IR Debate in the Classroom

Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Ingo Peters, Laura Kemmer, Alina Kleinn, Luisa Linke-Behrens, and Sabine Mokry

3. Where, When and What is IR?

David L. Blaney

4. IR and the Making of the White Man’s World

Peter Vale and Vineet Thakur

PART II: CONCEPTS

5. Order, Ordering and Disorder

Karen Smith

6. The International

Amy Niang

7. War and Conflict

Arlene B. Tickner

8. State and Sovereignty

Navnita Chadha Behera

9. Religion, Secularism and Nationalism

Aparna Devare

10. Security

Pinar Bilgin

11. Foreign Policy

Asli Calkivik

PART III: ISSUES

12. Globalization

John M. Hobson

13. Inequality

Joao Pontes Nogueira

14. Migration

Nizar Messari

15. Resistances

Carolina Cepeda Másmela

16. Socio-Environmentalism

Cristina Inoue and Matias Franchini

PART IV: FUTURES

17. South-South Talk

L.H.M. Ling and Carolina M. Pinheiro