Conclusion: Taking stock: Latin American contributions to Global IR

MELISA DECIANCIO; DIANA TUSSIE

Latin America in Global International Relations

Routledge

Año: 2021; p. 1 - 272

This volume introduced the many contributions of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the GIR project. When Acharya confronted faux universalism and explored ?regional? sites of theory construction, he paved the way for the intersection between history and concepts and opened the field to neglected -or sometimes hidden- voices. Latin American approaches to IR have a long-standing history that goes back to the origins of colonialism, the fight for sovereignty, independence and the path to regional coordination (A. B. Tickner, 2003, 2013). As a result, there is a gulf between IR as the ?American social science? (Hoffmann, 1987) and the development of the field in the Global South.