Decolonising IR & Eurocentrism

Decolonising IR (Theory)

Suggests that IR is flawed as it was constructed by trans-atlantic imperial powers. It deconstructs Western history as a universal template and reclaims the historical trajectories of developing nations.

Multi-Alignment

A foreign policy used by many of the global south where they deepen and overlap existing relationships with eachother to compete with great powers.

Decolonising IR (Scholars)

Zeynep Gulsah Capan

Reclaiming South-South relationships (Scholars)

Thomas Muhr

Non-aligned movement during the cold war

A historical coalition between African, Asian, and Latin nations to agree not to ally with the US or Eastern European bloc during the 20th century Cold War.

The New Development Bank created by BRICS

A multilateral financial institution created as an institutional alternative to the IMF without the strict neoliberal adjustment policies.

Institutional Cohension of BRICS (Critical interpretation)

Critics argue that the New Development Bank isn’t very useful as the bloc that founded it all have radically opposing political regimes.