This book examines the problem of difference in the study of global politics by exploring the limits and possibilities of distinct forms of worlding and the global imaginaries they give rise to, both within academia and beyond it.

1. Introduction: Claiming the International beyond IR, David L. Blaney and Arlene B. Tickner I. Reflections on Critical IR 2. Worlding Beyond the Self? IR, the Subject, and the Cartesian Anxiety, Inanna Hamati-Ataya 3. Claiming the International as a Critical Project, Asli Çalkivik II. Alternative Archives of the State 4. Becoming Nayaka: Sovereignty and Ethics in the Tanjavuri Andhra Rajula Caritra, Chris Chekuri 5. Claiming The Early State for the Relational Turn: the Case of Rus' (Ca. 800-1100), Iver Neumann 6. Sinic World Order Revisited: Choosing Sites of Self-Discovery in Contemporary, Chih-yu Shih III. Alternative International Registers 7. Indigenous Worlding: Kichwa Women Pluralizing Sovereignty, Manuela Picq 8. Black Redemption, Not (White) Abolition, Robbie Shilliam 9. An Accidental (Chinese) International Relations Theorist, Qin Yaqing IV. Writing the International Differently 10. Wresting the Frame, Quyhn Pham and Himadeep Muppidi 11. Distance and Intimacy: Forms of Writing and Worlding, Naeem Inayatullah 12. By Way of Conclusion: Forget IR? Arlene B. Tickner