Dr. Karim Makdisi, Associate Professor of International Politics and director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB, explains how scholars from the Global South increasingly engage their colleagues in the North and West to shape a new field of “Global IR”. He explains why the study of international relations should shed the traditions of western powers who seek their interests abroad, and also explore the views and interests of citizens, states, and non-state armed actors across the South who have long suffered the military interventions of global powers.