How to Engage with the Global South in IR/FA

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The panel is a follow-up to a panel presented at NPSA in 2023 where we assessed IR’s struggle to include the Global South in mainstream theorizing. As noted at the time, IR has been cautious—indeed resistant -- about incorporating such perspectives, although some progress has been made in recent times. This panel is not intended to go over the same theoretical ground but rather to provide examples of how global south perspectives can be effectively incorporated into research by graduate students and young scholars, and in so doing continue to promote to the mainstream the inclusion of the south. Panelists offer insights from a 2024 book on The Diplomatic Strategies of Rising Nations in the Global South and also outline specific ways in which they have incorporated global south perspectives into their research and teaching.

Sub Unit

• International Relations

Chair

• Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner, City University of New York

Individual Presentations

• IR/FP Theory and the Peculiarities of the African State - David O Monda, City University of Ne York

• Researching Cuban IR Using Identity Perspectives - Elsada Diana Cassells, Purchase College

• Environmental Foreign Policies in the Global South: Centering the Smallest States - Nancy Wright, Pace University

• IR/FP Theory and the Peculiar Security Characteristics of the Andean Cone Countries - Juan Acevedo-Ossa, Doctoral Student (Ralph Bunche Institute, CUNY)

Discussant

• Nancy Wright, Pace University