World Politics

Catherine Goetze is Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania in Australia. She has been an academic at universities in Germany, France, the UK, China and Australia. She speaks three languages and has lived on four continents. Her research spans questions of peace, migration, families in world politics, and feminist IR. She is editor of the Contemporary Reader of Feminist International Relations (2025, Routledge) and author of the monograph ‘The Distinction of Peace’ (2017, University of Michigan Press).

Goetze′s volume discusses IR theory from a fully critical angle, taking a much-needed feminist and decolonial perspective as starting point. Written in an accessible style and illustrated with a vast amount of clear examples, World Politics is called to successfully lead a full generation of students into the complexities of contemporary global affairs.

• Chapter 1 How We Know What the World IsChapter 2 International Relations: The Making of an Academic DisciplineChapter 3 Ideologies That Shape the WorldChapter 4 How the International Was MadeChapter 5 The Rise of the Liberal World OrderChapter 6 Decolonization and the Making of the Third WorldChapter 7 The World Economic OrderChapter 8 DevelopmentChapter 9 FinanceChapter 10 MigrationChapter 11 Transnational Non-State Actors and Global Civil SocietyChapter 12 Global Climate Change and Environmental GovernanceChapter 13 Humanitarianism and Humanitarian InterventionsChapter 14 GeopoliticsChapter 15 Surveillance and The Exceptional Powers of the State