Call for Papers: "International Relations: from Latin America to the world”

Call for the Publication of Dossier in the Journal Carta Internacional, n. 18 v. 3 2023

The Brazilian Association of International Relations (ISSN 2526-9038) is inviting submissions for the publication of the Dossier "International Relations: from Latin America to the World." Carta Internacional, an International Relations scientific journal, accepts articles written in Portuguese, Spanish, or English that have not been previously published. The deadline for submissions is June 7, 2023.

Dossier "International Relations: from Latin America to the world”

Editors: María Villarreal (UFRRJ) and Rafael Bittencourt (UFG)

According to the dominant narrative, International Relations as a discipline originated in 1919 with the establishment of the first chair of IR at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales. Despite this, there are multiple interpretations of the international sphere prior to this date, involving a range of actors and levels of analysis, and contributions beyond the West.

Since then, advances in the definition and identity of International Relations have been made through various debates involving assumptions, paradigms, theories, and methodologies. However, the questioning of the discipline's universalism and its founding myths, as well as critical assessments from Marxist, post-colonial, feminist, and other analyses, both in the North and Global South, have led to a profound revision of its ontology and revealed its limits, fragmentation, exclusions, and numerous challenges. Amitav Acharya, among others, has argued that a key challenge in the study and teaching of IR is to integrate the experiences and knowledge of the majority of societies and states outside the West. The goal of creating Global IR is to overcome the limitations of the discipline by critically evaluating these contributions and expanding the field of IR studies to include multiple voices and experiences beyond North-South and East-West divisions. This also includes exploring categories that have been previously under-explored, such as race, gender, class, and ethnicity. Additionally, there is a need to increase dialogue with other social sciences and approach the study of the international sphere in a transdisciplinary way.

In Latin America, IR emerged as an interdisciplinary field of study focused on problem-solving and closely linked to political action for a good international insertion. The first academic studies on international issues in the region appeared in 1922 with the opening of the first undergraduate and later doctoral program in Diplomacy in Rosario, Argentina. Since then, IR courses and publications have been established in all countries of the region, and organizations such as the Program of Joint Studies on Latin American International Relations (RIAL) have been created. Contributions to IR from Latin America have also been made by black, mestizo, and indigenous people, whose ideas are increasingly being mobilized, as seen in references to authors such as Milton Santos, Lélia González, Abdias do Nascimento, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, and Gloria Anzaldúa.

Latin American analysts have traditionally focused on research agendas involving relations with the United States, autonomy, development, and regional integration. Examples of contributions to IR from the region include Latin American Structuralism, Dependency Theory, the Autonomy School, and Decolonial Thought. There are also notable contributions from the Brasilia School in the historiography of IR, the Mexican School, the Rosario School of IR, and the development of theoretical proposals such as peripheral realism in foreign policy and the approach of founding insubordination. In recent times, in light of profound domestic and international changes and the struggle for hegemony between China and the United States, the policy of active non-alignment has emerged as a strategic position for the region in the 21st century.

The Dossier "International Relations: from Latin America to the World" aims to understand the contributions of the region in the field of International Relations (IR). By recognizing that Latin America is not just a recipient territory but also a critical interpreter, reformulator, and producer of its own thoughts about IR, this dossier seeks to make the diversity of schools, perspectives, readings, adaptations, and research agendas of the region's analysts visible. The goal is to transcend Latin American exceptionalism and receive contributions on the following topics, while also being open to other proposals that align with this call:

• Historiography of International Relations in Latin America;
• Latin American interpretations, contributions, or criticisms of classical theories of IR;
• Latin American analyses, re-readings, or reformulations of paradigmatic, theoretical, and methodological debates in IR;
• Latin American schools and regional contributions to IR: Structuralism, Dependency Theory, Autonomy School, Decolonial Thought, etc.
• National traditions and schools of IR in Latin America: Brasilia School, Rosario School, Mexican School, etc;
• Latin American ideas and concepts in IR: peripheral realism, founding insubordination, coloniality of power, active non-alignment, etc;
• Analysis of the internal and external factors that have influenced the development of IR in Latin America;
• Evolution, problems, and limitations of IR in Latin America;
• State-of-the-art and literature reviews on the intellectual production in the field of IR in Latin America;
• Latin American contributions to development, regionalism, and regional integration;
• Latin American contributions and revisions of foreign policy studies;
• Old and new themes and research agendas in IR: security, defence, human rights, feminisms, LGBTQIA+ agendas, environment, climate change, migration, health, new technologies, etc;
• Absences and exclusions in Latin American IR debates;
• Dialogues and transdisciplinary studies on IR in Latin America;
• Challenges and the future of IR in Latin America.

 Submission rules:

1. The article must be original and written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish. It must not have been published before and should not be under concurrent consideration by any other journal or publication, in whole or in part, in its original language or translated.
2. Articles should be between 7,500 and 8,500 words long, including the title, abstract, and keywords (in Portuguese, English, and Spanish), footnotes, and bibliographical references.
3. The abstract, presented in three languages, should contain 80 to 100 words and should not be written in the first person. It should include the general topic, research problem, objectives, methods, and main conclusions.
4. Articles with more than four authors/co-authors will not be accepted.
5. Bibliographical references should be listed at the end of the text, following the Chicago (Author date) system.

The complete submission rules can be found at https://www.cartainternacional.abri.org.br/Carta/about/submissions and must be strictly observed. Other elements of the publication process are available at https://www.cartainternacional.abri.org.br/Carta/about