International relations from the global South: worlds of difference

Introduction: International relations from the global South / Karen Smith and Arlene B. Tickner -- The global IR debate in the classroom / Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Ingo Peters, Laura Kemmer, Alina Kleinn, Luisa Linke-Behrens, and Sabine Mokry -- Where, when and what is IR? / David L. Blaney -- IR and the making of the white man's world / Peter Vale and Vineet Thakur -- Order, ordering and disorder / Karen Smith -- The international / Amy Niang -- War and conflict / Arlene B. Tickner -- State and sovereignty / Navnita Chadha Behera -- Religion, secularism and nationalism / Aparna Devare -- Security / Pinar Bilgin -- Foreign policy / Asli Calkivik -- Globalization / John M. Hobson -- Inequality / Joao Pontes Nogueira -- Migration / Nizar Messari -- Resistances / Carolina Cepeda Másmela -- Socio-environmentalism / Cristina Inoue and Matias Franchini -- South-South talk / L.H.M. Ling and Carolina M. Pinheiro.

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.