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Among specialists in the dicipline of International Relations (IR) it is often said that the Interpretation of the events taking place in the world arena is a quasi-monopoly of Anglo-Saxon schools and that Ibero-Americans who study these events are not very fond of theoretical interpretation, and as result they prefer to use and rely on theories that have been developed outside the region to analyse the world.
We consider this perception is influenced by the traditional narrative of the so-called great debates in the discipline of International Relations (IR) in which there is a striking absence of Iberoamerican intellectuals.
The biographical articles contained in this book argue and show that this idea is at best and over-simplification, since there is a robust diversity of notable Ibero-American intellectuals who have contribuited to the study and interpretation of the international arena for several decades.
This book constitutes, in this sense, a presentation from an Ibero-American perpesctive of several thinkers who have the potential of enriching the discipline of International Relations, but who have also been ignored by traditional Anglo-Saxon narratives. The contributions
contained here seek to criticize the absence of these intellectuals in IR´s conventional narratives and restore the relevance of their international thought. While not all of them sought to theorize about International Relations, their writings, nevertheless, often shed considerable light of world affairs.