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World Politics
A Critical Introduction to International Relations
- Catherine Goetze - University of Tasmania, Australia
March 2026 | 456 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
World Politics: A Critical Introduction to International Relations offers an engaging and accessible exploration of critical theories in international relations. Drawing on a rich array of narratives and perspectives, it provides a systematic introduction to feminist, queer, decolonial, and other critical approaches.
The book examines how politics in the 20th and 21st centuries have been instrumental in creating, shaping, and perpetuating global hierarchies of power and status. It critically analyses how the Eurocentrism embedded in the international system is the result of deliberate, often violent, political actions aimed at establishing world order. These actions continue to influence daily lives and shape societies in profound ways.
Complete with practical examples, case studies, and vignettes, this textbook is an essential resource for students seeking to decolonise, feminise, and integrate a broader range of critical perspectives into their study of international relations, history and politics.
The book examines how politics in the 20th and 21st centuries have been instrumental in creating, shaping, and perpetuating global hierarchies of power and status. It critically analyses how the Eurocentrism embedded in the international system is the result of deliberate, often violent, political actions aimed at establishing world order. These actions continue to influence daily lives and shape societies in profound ways.
Complete with practical examples, case studies, and vignettes, this textbook is an essential resource for students seeking to decolonise, feminise, and integrate a broader range of critical perspectives into their study of international relations, history and politics.
Chapter 1 How We Know What the World Is
Chapter 2 International Relations: The Making of an Academic Discipline
Chapter 3 Ideologies That Shape the World
Chapter 4 How the International Was Made
Chapter 5 The Rise of the Liberal World Order
Chapter 6 Decolonization and the Making of the Third World
Chapter 7 The World Economic Order
Chapter 8 Development
Chapter 9 Finance
Chapter 10 Migration
Chapter 11 Transnational Non-State Actors and Global Civil Society
Chapter 12 Global Climate Change and Environmental Governance
Chapter 13 Humanitarianism and Humanitarian Interventions
Chapter 14 Geopolitics
Chapter 15 Surveillance and The Exceptional Powers of the State
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