ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the potential for an international political theory of care as an alternative to liberalism in the context of contemporary global politics. It argues that relationality and interdependence, and the responsibilities for and practices of care that arise therewith are fundamental aspects of moral life and sites of political contestation that have been systematically denied and obfuscated under liberalism. The chapter shows that relationality and interdependence, and the responsibilities for and practices of care that arise therewith are fundamental aspects of moral life and sites of political contestation that have been systematically denied and obfuscated under liberalism. Liberalism has successfully constructed a series of dichotomies at both the domestic and the international levels that shape the definitions. The chapter also argues that contemporary conditions in world politics and the global economy have opened up discursive space to articulate a new international political theory that challenges the hegemony of liberalism.
