Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR

by: Pinar Bilgin (Author),Karen Smith(Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edition: 2024th

Publication Date: 2024/7/15

Language: English

Print Length: 171 pages

ISBN-10: 3031565711

ISBN-13: 9783031565717

Book Description

This book asks what it means to think globally about world politics. In an attempt to contextualise the recent ‘globalising tu’ in Inteational Relations (IR), it takes stock of more than 30 years of efforts at addressing IR’s Eurocentric limitations, and explores what ‘thinking globally’ means in practice through focusing on the study of (inteational) security and foreign policy. The authors offer thinking globally about world politics not as an alteative to, but as a critical engagement with, IR. It involves curiosity about what others think about the world, making a sustained effort to locate the knowledge they have produced, and recognising past and present contributions to what we otherwise view as ‘European’ ideas, practices, and institutions. Rather than focusing on abstract debates about the state of the discipline, the aim is to provide researchers with the conceptual tools to think globally and design their own research projects.

About the Author

This book asks what it means to think globally about world politics. In an attempt to contextualise the recent ‘globalising tu’ in Inteational Relations (IR), it takes stock of more than 30 years of efforts at addressing IR’s Eurocentric limitations, and explores what ‘thinking globally’ means in practice through focusing on the study of (inteational) security and foreign policy. The authors offer thinking globally about world politics not as an alteative to, but as a critical engagement with, IR. It involves curiosity about what others think about the world, making a sustained effort to locate the knowledge they have produced, and recognising past and present contributions to what we otherwise view as ‘European’ ideas, practices, and institutions. Rather than focusing on abstract debates about the state of the discipline, the aim is to provide researchers with the conceptual tools to think globally and design their own research projects.