An exploration of how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict and forge peace.
In this pathbreaking book, Roger Mac Ginty explores everyday peace-or how individuals …

“Peacebuilding” serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international
organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencies of foreign states to restore or …

The introduction of Luhmann's System Theory to International Relations has been long
overdue. In the last few years, articles by Donnelly (2012) and Buzan and Albert (2010) have …

This article argues that the symbolic interactionist sources of the first generationof
constructivists in IR theory are worth recovering because of their ability to address …

2 Introduction phenomenon given that they are–Palan's contribution excepted–only weakly
connected to the economic crisis that so few in IPE anticipated. As such, the timing–in terms …

While disciplinary identities are among the most fraught subjects in academia, much less
attention has been given to what disciplinarity actually entails and what risks different …

K arl Mannheim is a ubiquitous reference in scholarly work on generations, yet the
usefulness of his essay “The Problem of Generations” as a basis for social scientific …

Amidst the global religious resurgence in the post-secular world, the field of international
relations finds itself unwilling or unable to situate religion back to theoretical paradigms …

Empirical studies on relationships between Indonesians and Malaysians, especially those
living in Penang, Malaysia, diverge significantly from the narratives commonly found in …

International relations (IR) defines itself as a discipline by adhering to a Westphalian
narrative centered on 1648. The following paper argues that IR should broaden its …