Lina Benabdallah

Lina Benabdallah

Lina Benabdallah is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University and a visiting fellow at the Center for African Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Her research has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Reviews, The Journal of International Relations and Development, Third World Quarterly, African Studies Quarterly, Project on Middle East Political Science, as well as in public facing outlets such as Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, and Foreign Policy. Dr. Benabdallah was a Johns Hopkins University China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) Research Associate, a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Africa Program and is currently a co-editor of PS: Political Science and Politics.

Lina Benabdallah

International Relations and the Problem of Literacy

by Lina Benabdallah | 4 April, 2024 | Academia, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods

There is no shortage of knowledge produced in various traditions and diverse scholarly communities. There is no lack of theoretical traditions and political thought that come from non-Euro-American and mainstream canons. There is also no shortage in theoretical concepts and approaches to global politics that are not produced in Anglophone spaces. Rather, there is still in mainstream IR a major problem of literacy to access, integrate, and dialogue with this wealth of IR scholarship produced in and from the margins

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