Book Description
Using decades of their own insight into teaching undergraduate International Relations (IR) courses, leading experts offer an introduction to IR thinking throughout history in Latin America, unfolding ideas, voices, concepts and approaches from the region that can contribute to the broader Global IR discussion.
The book highlights and discuss the growing possibility of a Latin American agency, defined broadly to include both material and ideational elements, in regional and international relations, covering areas where Latin America’s contributions are especially visible and relevant, such as regionalism, international law, security management, and Latin America’s relations with the outside world. This is not about exclusively “Latin American solutions to Latin American problems”, but rather about contributions in which Latin Americans define the terms for understanding the issues and set the terms for the nature and scope of outside involvement.
Written with verve and clarity, Latin America in Global International Relations exposes readers to the relevance of redefining and broadening IR theory. It will serve as a guide for instructors in structuring their courses and in identifying the place of Latin America in the discipline.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Latin America and the Caribbean in Global International Relations
Amitav Acharya and Diana Tussie
2. Alternative World Orders in an Age of Globalization: Latin American Scenarios and Responses
Arie M. Kacowicz and Daniel F. Wajner
3. From Autonomy to Agency (and Back Again): Debating Latin American States as Global Norm Entrepreneurs
Carsten-Andreas Schulz
4. Regionalism and Political Violence: Hegemony through Transnational Social Compacts in Cold War South America
Matias Spektor
5. Big Ideas from Small Places: Caribbean Thought for International Relations
Kristina Hinds
6. Unsettling Knowledges in Latin America
Amaya Querejazu and Arlene B. Tickner
7. The Rise China and the Post Western World in Latin America: What is in Store?
Oliver Stuenkel
8. Latin American feminism as a contribution to a Global IR agenda from the South
Jorgelina Loza
9. The Latin American School of IPE: A Road from Development to Regionalism
Cintia Quiliconi and Renato Rivera Rhon
10. Regionalism in Latin American Thought and Practice
Arturo Santa-Cruz
11. From dependency theories to mechanisms of dependency: the contribution of Latin American dependentistas to Global IR
Stefano Palestini
12. Between ‘lo práctico’ and ‘lo posible’: International insertion as an innovation in Latin America’s contribution to Global IR
Fabrício Chagas Bastos
13. The Concept of Autonomy as an Epistemic Foundation? Many Paths, Many Turns
María Cecilia Míguez
Conclusion: Taking stock: Latin American contributions to Global IR
Melisa Deciancio and Diana Tussie
