How do sexual politics impact International Relations? This volume treats LGBTQIA approaches to International Relations as innovative in politics and theory-building. It offers comparative case-studies from regional, cultural and theoretical peripheries to identify new ways of practicing IR while expanding critical debates within IR theory.

Sexualities in World Politics: how LGBTQ claims shape IR, Manuela Picq and Markus Thiel 1. Human rights, LGBT rights & international theory, Anthony Langlois 2. To love or to loathe: modernity, homophobia and LGBT rights, Mike Bosia 3 LGBT & (Dis)United Nations: sexual minorities, international law, and UN politics, Francine D'Amico 4. Exploring transversal and particularistic politics in the European Union's anti-discrimination policy: the role of LGBT politics, Markus Thiel 5. Sexual diffusion and conceptual confusions: homosexualities, muslims cultures and modernity, Momin Rahman 6. Amazon prides: LGBT perspectives on international relations, Manuela L. Picq 7. Between the universal and the particular: the politics of the recognition of LGBT rights in Turkey, Mehmet Sinan Birdal 8.Queering Security Studies in Northern Ireland: Problem, Practice and Practitioner, Sandra McEvoy LGBTQ politics/global politics/international relations, Laura Sjoberg

Markus Thiel is associate professor at Florida International University. His research interests are EU Politics, Nationalism & Identity (Politics), and Political Sociology. He has published several EU-related articles and book chapters at the EU Center, University of Miami, as well as in Transatlantic Monthly, International Studies Compendium and Perspectives on European Politics & Society.

Manuela Picq is Professor of International Relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and 2013-2014 Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her research bridges international relations and comparative politics to tackle issues of gender, ethnicity, and stateness in Latin America.