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.

Nizar Messari is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, where he teaches International Relations Theory and International Security classes, his main research areas.

Arlene B. Tickner is a professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. Her main areas of research include the sociology of knowledge in the field of International Relations, the evolution on IR in non-core settings, Latin American and Andean security, Colombian foreign policy and U.S.-Colombian relations. Some of her most recent publications include: Claiming the International(edited with David L. Blaney), London: Routledge, 2013; "Core, Periphery and (neo) imperialist IR",European Journal of International Relations, 2013; Thinking International Relations Differently (edited with David L. Blaney), London: Routledge, 2012;International Relations Scholarship around the World (edited with Ole Waver), London: Routledge, 2009

L.H.M. Ling is Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, New School for Public Engagement (NSPE) and Associate Professor in the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, at The New School in New York City. Her research focuses on developing a post-Westphalian approach to world politics through the notion of "multiple worlds" or worldism. Dr. Ling is the author of four books:Postcolonial International Relations: Conquest and Desire between Asia and the West (2002),Transforming World Politics: from Empire to Multiple Worlds (2009), co-authored with Anna M. Agathangelou (York University),The Dao of World Politics: Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations(2013), and Imagining World Politics: Sihar & Shenya, a Fable for Our Times (2014).