Good International Citizenship and Non-Western International Relations

Perspectives and Cases from the Global South

Charalampos Efstathopoulos, Hakan Mehmetcik

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031908149
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031908156
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Globalisation
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This is the first book to apply the concept of good international citizenship to the international relations of the Global South. The edited book introduces good international citizenship as a theoretical framework for analysing a diversity of agencies across the Global South. It covers different cases of non-Western states, global governance, foreign policy, and international law, and examines how non-Western actors enact ideas of good international citizenship to engage and shape the global order. The book shows how good international citizenship is not limited to Western notions of liberal internationalism but also encompasses the efforts of non-Western actors to promote distinct approaches to ethics, morality, responsibility, and leadership. The book contributes theoretically and empirically to the field of non-Western International Relations. It allows for rethinking established International Relations concepts so that these become more inclusive to the histories and experiences of different actors across the globe.

Table of contents

• Good International Citizenship and Non-Western International Relations
• Preface
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Introduction: Rethinking Good International Citizenship in a Changing Global Order
• 2. Good International Citizenship and Non-Western International Relations: Exploring Linkages and Contributions
• 3. Reframing Good International Citizenship: Principles of Responsibility, Cooperation, and Empathy
• 4. The Chinese IR Trio and Good International Citizenship
• 5. Rethinking Good International Citizenship Through Global South Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect
• 6. South Africa: An Alternative Conception of Good International Citizenship
• 7. Emerging Middle Powers as Norm Followers or Norm Shapers? A Global IR Perspective on Turkish and Korean International Citizenship in Global Governance
• 8. International Customary Law, State Practice and the Principle of Good Faith: The Case of Brazil
• 9. Reconsidering the Refugee Regime: A TWAIL Approach
• 10. Reconstructing the Self Internationally: Global IR, Global Consciousness and the Emancipatory Potential of Good International Citizenship
• 11. Conclusion: Toward a Multifaceted Understanding of Good International Citizenship
• Index1