There are several considerations of the papacy’s vision of what global politics should be like. There are, however, few mappings of the papacy’s actual concept of global politics, of how it evaluates the current state of global politics, understood as global political, social, and economic trends, patterns, actors and their relationships. This article delineates Pope Francis’ conception of global politics and contextualises it within the papacy’s trajectory of participating in global politics. Attending to a particular concept, of how the pope thinks about global politics, helps to better understand and place the papacy in the study of global politics. The article shows how Francis conceptualises global politics from below, from the periphery of society and politics, which leads him to unmask global inequalities. In particular, the article illustrates that Francis contests widespread assumptions of central hierarchic interstate relations and individualism, dominating the conceptual discourse about global politics.

教皇对全球政治应该是什么样子的看法有几个考虑因素。然而，教廷对全球政治的实际概念、它如何评估全球政治的当前状态、被理解为全球政治、社会和经济趋势、模式、参与者及其关系的映射很少。本文描绘了教皇方济各的全球政治概念，并将其置于教皇参与全球政治的轨迹中。关注教皇如何看待全球政治的特定概念，有助于更好地理解教皇并将其置于全球政治研究中。这篇文章展示了弗朗西斯如何从底层、社会和政治的边缘对全球政治进行概念化，这使他揭露了全球不平等。特别是，