ABSTRACT
This chapter advances the worlding/Global International Relations research agenda. In this chapter, through the concept of ‘international insertion’ I present how Latin American international thought can innovate and provide a contribution to Global IR. I discuss Latin American international thought in terms of ‘international insertion’ and suggest that innovation is embedded in the Latin American knowledge production in IR. I take an approach grounded in the history of concepts to demonstrate how a Latin American knowledge-based concept can provide tools to explain and understand the behaviour of Southern countries in contemporary power transitions. I conclude by demonstrating the agency of the South, creating spaces to express agency while navigating through global hierarchies and power structures.
