With the shaping force of Global History and the Global Turn in international relations(IR)studies,the Global International Relations(the Global IR)is in a formative stage,along with the Global South as its critical subject.One of the Global IR missions is to realize a series of theoretical innovations in IR,and the Global South could afford a plenty of ideational resources.With the case studies on some essential international relations concepts of Southeast Asia,South Asia,the Middle East,Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America,along with their basic meanings and general fea-tures,a starting point is set up for a research agenda mainly including such IR theoretical innovation efforts as:firstly,the Global South state doctrine,which incorporates the plenty and diversity of historical experiences and practices in the Global South and explains the origins,evolving periods,formations,elements and missions of state;secondly,the de-velopmentalism IR theory,which builds on development as a core concept and peace-development nexus as a primary proposition,and aims to generalize fundamental relations between development on the one hand,and state-building,peace and war,and stability and change in international system on the other;and thirdly,the complex regionalism,which concludes on history and reality of various regional processes around the whole world including the Global South,and,while ascertaining development and security indivisible,presents a series of theoretical statements on cooperation on regional,interregional and global levels,along with their participants and models.
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