Nepal, June 13 -- As students of international relations, we were socialised into mainstream ideas, including theories ranging from realism to constructivism, political thought, geopolitics, geo-economics, various forms of power (soft, hard and smart), and the roles of state and non-state actors and so on. Currently, we have been reimagining our course content and recognising a significant academic movement toward incorporating the Anthropocene in international relations in South Asia.

Whenever a concept of the Anthropocene-sustainable development, climate change-arises, we must remember, as intellectuals and scholars engaged in particularly critical international relations, the necessity to broaden, deepen and pluralise its meaning. The...