Political Science 297PW - ST-The "Other" Strikes Back

The terms "international" and "global" are sometimes catchalls that do more harm than good in revealing the origins behind existential assumptions and structural imbalances of a concept or scholarship. This course seeks to tackle what it means to accuse global politics and the sociology of International Relations (IR) as "Eurocentric" and re-orient how we perceive and interpret politics. To that end, the course will not only discuss key concepts and theories and how much they embody the image of their maker, but also critically analyze recent intellectual contributions from the "periphery" or "Other" and their value-added to the discourse.