Programa de actividades

I will focus on the disciplinary debates in International Relations (IR) that aim to overcome Eurocentrism, and to simultaneously prevent the emergence of other forms of ethnocentric scholarship, e.g. Sinocentrism. Starting with the recent discussions on Global IR and alternative frameworks, I will show how our scholarship can advance as an intellectual undertaking. The Global IR project includes a broader focus on history that goes beyond the Eurocentric takes, which have at the same time shaped the dominant theoretical frameworks in IR to a significant extent. Furthermore, Global IR debates emphasize the impact of ideas from across the globe, and the role of regions. This approach can widen the discipline, making its empirical, theoretical, but also epistemological foundations more global, allowing us to re-create IR in line with today's more decentered but global world. On these bases, I concretize my suggestions by providing certain points about the case of Mexico and the broader region with regard to its potential in enriching the discipline. This will be done through an analysis of the multiple historical aspects as well as regional and civilizational features that have been largelv overlooked by mainstream IR. By connecting the Global IR debates to the Mexican IR scholarship and its chances, I will present an outline of the advantageous positionality of Mexican academic community - in line with the prevailing geo-epistemic condition in the region - thanks to its historical and ideational heritage, and presence, that need to be more intensively introduced into the discipline of IR.