El mundo visto desde América Latina: una revisión de los conceptos básicos de las Relaciones Internacionales

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Have you ever thought that traditional concepts in the discipline of International Relations (IR) have become outdated and are no longer as useful for analysing international phenomena? Events such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the migration and human rights crises in Africa and Europe, and the rise of ‘new’ powers such as China and India, among many others, demonstrate the need for a thorough review of the discipline's concepts. In this context, El mundo visto desde América Latina:  una revisión de los conceptos básicos de las Relaciones Internacionales [The world seen from Latin America: a review of the basic concepts of International Relations] makes a clear, structured and highly up-to-date contribution. Its fundamental strength lies in the contributors' intellectual efforts to reinterpret traditional concepts from the perspective of Latin American civil society and to re-evaluate the role of the ‘local’ in international analysis.

Through workshops and interviews with more than 250 civil society actors from the region, the contributors propose to reinterpret eight key IR concepts (p. 12). This approach allows them to leave behind perspectives of Latin America as a homogenous whole and to question categories associated with global North scholarship, including international order, human rights, transnationalism, sovereignty, multilateralism, diplomacy, security and environment.