International Relations from the Global South Worlds of Difference

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.

1. Introduction: International Relations from the Global SouthKaren Smith and Arlene B. Tickner PART I: DISCIPLINE2. The Global IR Debate in the ClassroomWiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Ingo Peters, Laura Kemmer, Alina Kleinn, LuisaLinke-Behrens, and Sabine Mokry 3. Where, When and What is IR?David L. Blaney 4. IR and the Making of the White Man’s WorldPeter Vale and Vineet ThakurPART II: CONCEPTS 5. Order, Ordering and DisorderKaren Smith 6. The InternationalAmy Niang7. War and ConflictArlene B. Tickner 8. State and SovereigntyNavnita Chadha Behera 9. Religion, Secularism and NationalismAparna Devare 10. SecurityPinar Bilgin 11. Foreign PolicyAsli CalkivikPART III: ISSUES 12. GlobalizationJohn M. Hobson 13. InequalityJoao Pontes Nogueira 14. MigrationNizar Messari 15. ResistancesCarolina Cepeda Másmela 16. Socio-EnvironmentalismCristina Inoue and Matias FranchiniPART IV: FUTURES17.South-South TalkL.H.M. Ling and Carolina M. Pinheiro

Arlene B. Tickner is a Professor of International Relations in the School ofInternational, Political and Urban Studiesat the Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. Her main areas of research include sociology of knowledge in the field of International Relations and the evolution on IR in non-Western settings, Latin American and hemispheric security, and Colombian foreign policy. She is the co-editor (with David Blaney and Inanna Hamati-Ataya) of the Routledge book series, Worlding Beyond the West. In addition to her academic work, she writes a weekly newspaper column in the Colombian daily, El Espectador. Karen Smith teaches International Relations at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She also remains affiliated as an honorary research associate with the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she was based as an associate professor until 2017. Her research focuses on contributions to IR theory from the global South, South Africa’s foreign policy and changes in global order.