With the help of this book, students of political theory no longer need to learn about their ideas in a vacuum with little or no attention paid to how such ideas are responses to varying local political problems in different places, times, and contexts.

Introduction: What Does it Mean to Globalize Political Theory? Part 1: Colonialism and Empire 1. The Mentor and the Mentee: Competing Visions in Vietnamese Political Thought 2. From Black Liberation to Human Freedom: Claudia Jones, Frantz Fanon and Universal Emancipation 3. Life, Death and Futurity in the Work of Achille Mbembe Part 2: Gender and Sexuality 4. The Ayatollah Khomeini: Gender and Sexuality in the Fight against Westoxification 5. Towards an Afro-Latin American Feminism: Notes on Lélia Gonzalez's Theorizations 6. Different Foundations for Islamic Feminisms: Comparing Genealogical and Textual Approaches in Ahmed and Parvez Part 3: Religion and Secularism 7. Sayyid Qutb and the Politics of Renewal 8. The Dialectical Utopianism of Ali Shariati 9. The Sikh and Ahmadiyya Communities: Finding Shared and Distinct Understandings of the Oneness of God through Religious Pluralism Part 4: Marxism, Socialism, and Globalization 10. Walter Rodney and Samir Amin: From Relations of Underdevelopment to Global Decolonization 11. Ernesto "Che" Guevara's Political Economy: Balancing Productivity and Dis-Alienation 12. R. Ihsan Eliaçik: Anti-Capitalist Islamic Thought in Turkey 13. Thomas Malthus and Global Malthusianism Part 5: Democracy and Protest 14. "Be Water, My Friend": Protest, Identity Politics, and Democracy in Hong Kong 15. Fatima Meer's Father: Storytelling-History, Racialized Men of Color and Feminism, and Overcoming the Precarity of Black-Asian Solidarity 16. Abdias do Nascimento: Quilombist Praxis Amidst the Genocide of Black People Part 6: Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity 17. Contesting Conquest: Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Anticolonial Resistance 18. Haunani-Kay Trask, Ka Lahui Hawai'i, and Indigenous Sovereignty 19. W.E.B Du Bois, the Negro Problem, and the Case against Black Involvement in War