International Relations from the Global South Worlds of Difference

"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