This course will survey postcolonial and feminist theories of International Relations (IR) since the turn of the millennium. Although highly varied in scope and topic, concepts and methods, this literature converges on a perspective identified as “subaltern”: that is, from “inside” and “below.” Postcolonialists center primarily on global relations between Self and Other in spaces racialized by Euro-American colonialism and imperialism; feminists, regarding men and women, masculinity and femininity. Postcolonial-feminists integrate the two literatures by intersecting race with gender to account for how and why world politics plays out the way it does. The course will extend beyond the substance of the matter (e.g., “race,” “gender,” “colonialism,” “imperialism”) to show how IR concepts themselves are racialized and genderized, along with associated assumptions about class, nationality, and culture not to mention norms, institutions, and practices. The course will close with an examination of recent attempts to develop “counter-hegemonic” theories of IR from sites identified as the global South.