Problematizing International Relations:

Proposals from the Global South for the pluralization of criticism in the discipline

Abstract

This is a theoretical article that problematizes the critical debates in International Relations, suggesting that some of these positions have been limited because they maintain the ethnocentric character of the discipline with the preponderance of postulates, authors and Eurocentric and Western contexts, with its few ontological problematizations. In this way, it seeks to transcend the traditional criticisms, highlighting the most recent debates that are being carried out especially from the Global South, such as the proposals of the ‘Global IR’ and the introduction of Latin American decolonial thought. Finally, it is proposed to advance in the criticisms through the inclusion of other epistemologies and ontologies, related to the proposals of the Epistemologies of the South and the Relational Political Ontology, expanding the research agenda highlighting some contributions that emerge from Global South, advancing in the pluralization of the discipline.