Abstract This forum brings together voices from diverse backgrounds to explore how relationships shape our understanding of international relations (IR). Drawing from personal experience, daily life, and academic research, the authors present fresh perspectives that challenge the usual ways we think about the world. Their contributions show how theory and real-world practice are deeply interconnected, offering practical tools for expanding what IR can be. Each essay questions various expressions of universalisms—such as those tied to religion, capitalism, the “international”, IR—and introduces new ways of relating and thinking that disrupt these patterns while reimagining the boundaries of time, space, life, death, self, and other. This forum demonstrates how IR can be pluriversally re-envisioned and diversified, nurturing a more expansive and inclusive appreciation of our interconnected realities.
Querejazu et al. (Thu,) studied this question.