Decentering International Relations

The authors effectively engage all of us as students, as people trying to make more reliable, less blinkered sense of international politics. Their style is accessible, the questions they pose crucial. They challenge each of us to seriously think about who "we" are when we talk about "them".

It is a refreshingly unusual book on International Relations. It asks all the right questions, not only about world politics but about the ways they are seen and theorised. Disquisitions on theory tend to be ponderous and demanding, but the almost chatty style of the authors is not only light but almost wickedly humane. It is a book against obfuscation, on behalf of clarity, against the reification of the world into the vocabulary of an elite species, but expert in what that vocabulary should have demanded - shedding light upon the world instead of the genealogy of vocabulary.