20–23 Jun 2023
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Is 'Global IR' decolonial? An comparison of the strategies of 'Global IR' and 'decolonial approaches to IR'

22 Jun 2023, 15:00

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Taking issue with the terminology and idea of 'the non-West', this paper seeks to examine the decolonial credentials of the new departure in International Relations scholarship called 'Global IR'. In examining the claims and preoccupations of Global IR, the paper seeks to examine areas of commonality and areas of divergence between Global IR and decolonial approaches. The argument advanced is that 'Global IR' - commonly centred upon themes such as 'IR from below', 'agency of the powerless' and the unclear divisions between the international and the domestic (Hurrell, 2016) leaves the discipline largely intact, making useful, 'diverse' additions which are not always useful, or do not always contribute to changed perspectives and paradigms at the heart of the discipline. These shortcomings are highlighted using Sabaratnam's (2011) typology of decolonial strategies.

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