Mainstream
scholarship in International Relations (IR) and related disciplines has
recently come under increasing fire for its unwillingness and/or inability to
see the world from the perspective of the Global South. This has led to calls
to “decolonize” these fields and rethink them from a Southern perspective, as
well as to bring the intellectual contributions of Global South IR scholars to
the attention of their Global North counterparts.
Indeed,
ISA’s 2015 annual convention is being organized around the theme of creating a
“Global IR,” which entails “the acknowledgement of regional diversity and local
agency” and a “new, pluralistic universalism” that seeks to incorporate the
Global South into a field that has long been considered an “American social
science.”
To
contribute to these worthy efforts, the GSCIS has decided to compile a
bibliography of key books, articles, and projects dealing with Global South (or
Third World) international relations, broadly defined. This list is intended as
a resource primarily for professors and graduate students, who often ask us for
suggested readings, and who may be seeking ways to incorporate the Global South
into their own research and course syllabi.
In
general terms, the aim is to both foster greater understanding of the role of
Global South actors in international politics and economics, as well as to
create possibilities for dialogue between Northern and Southern scholarship.
GSCIS
member Kevin Funk (kevin.funk@gmail.com) is
coordinating the compilation of this bibliography. Please be in touch with him
if you would like to help! The more people who get involved, the better this
resource will be.
