Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 class
Trade Review
"It’s no secret that most textbooks on International Relations are written by Western scholars and offer a mainly Western perspective. This comprehensive and well-written volume is a major step towards building a Global IR, and deserves to be used in classrooms around the world." — Amitav Acharya, American University, USA
"The stories and theories we encounter in the field of International Relations are often presented as having "global" or "universal" reach. Yet quite to the contrary they often reflect very particular experiences, viewpoints and understandings of the world. This highly anticipated textbook shows how approaching International Relations from the perspective of researchers and students from the "global South" matters for thinking through international politics more comprehensively, carefully and realistically. This text will provide an invaluable resource for thinking, practicing and studying IR as the field’s Eurocentric framings of the world are challenged, shifted and decolonized." — Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth University, UK
"This is the first textbook to approach international relations as experienced and theorized in the global South. It brings non-Western stories to the center of knowledge production, breaking with rigid classifications to reflect on the diversity of experiences of the international. This is a bold and emancipatory textbook that will have a lasting effect on the way we teach IR everywhere." — Manuela Picq, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and Amherst College, USA
"This new textbook is a generous gift to teachers and students of IR. While the first impression might be that it is "only" a solution to the much bewailed problem that students in the global South have been fed irrelevant introductions to the discipline, it is actually a very productive and stimulating way to also teach mainstream and "Northern" concepts in a topical way. This is the textbook for teaching IR in and for all of the world." — Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
"It’s no secret that most textbooks on International Relations are written by Western scholars and offer a mainly Western perspective. This comprehensive and well-written volume is a major step towards building a Global IR, and deserves to be used in classrooms around the world." — Amitav Acharya, American University, USA
"The stories and theories we encounter in the field of International Relations are often presented as having 'global' or 'universal' reach. Yet quite to the contrary they often reflect very particular experiences, viewpoints and understandings of the world. This highly anticipated textbook shows how approaching International Relations from the perspective of researchers and students from the 'global South' matters for thinking through international politics more comprehensively, carefully and realistically. This text will provide an invaluable resource for thinking, practicing and studying IR as the field’s Eurocentric framings of the world are challenged, shifted and decolonized." — Milja Kurki, Aberystwyth University, UK
"This is the first textbook to approach international relations as experienced and theorized in the global South. It brings non-Western stories to the center of knowledge production, breaking with rigid classifications to reflect on the diversity of experiences of the international. This is a bold and emancipatory textbook that will have a lasting effect on the way we teach IR everywhere." — Manuela Picq, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and Amherst College, USA
"This new textbook is a generous gift to teachers and students of IR. While the first impression might be that it is 'only' a solution to the much bewailed problem that students in the global South have been fed irrelevant introductions to the discipline, it is actually a very productive and stimulating way to also teach mainstream and 'Northern' concepts in a topical way. This is the textbook for teaching IR in and for all of the world." — Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Table of Contents1. Introduction: International Relations from the Global South Part I: 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 II: 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 III: ISSUES 12. Globalization 13. Inequality 14. Migration 15. Resistances 16. Socio-Environmentalism PART IV: FUTURES 17. South-South Talk
