On the Perpetual Puzzle of African Inclusion in IR

• In Event: Two Decades Plus Later: Assessing IR’s Struggle with Inclusion of the Global South

Abstract

The paper reviews the ways in which IR theory has sought to include African perspectives, usually without sufficient attention to African agency in IR. The author investigates the reasons why it has been so difficult to truly include and develop African IR and offers suggestions for the future.

Author

• Paul Adogamhe, University of Wisconsin,