Mainstream international relations (IR) has been built as an extension of imperial concerns.
Thus, a restricted focus, even a self-styled demarcation was born: ĺetat ćest moi. This …

Abstract The discipline of International Relations (IR) does not reflect the voices,
experiences, knowledge claims, and contributions of the vast majority of the societies and …

Hierarchy-centered approaches to IR promise to deliver what anarchy-centered approaches
have not: a framework for theorizing and empirically analyzing world politics as a global …

Offering unrivalled coverage of classical theories, contemporary approaches, and current
issues, together with an exceptionally clear writing style, Introduction to International …

For a long time, both of us have been baffled and frustrated by emotionally charged
paradigmatic debates about the nature of international relations and the growing gap …

A decade ago in 2007 we published a forum in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
(IRAP) on 'Why there is no non-Western IR theory?'. Now we revisit this project ten years on …

Wherever different territorially-based political orders coexist in the same social world, some
form of international relations is to be found–even though the term itself was not coined until …

Unrivalled coverage of IR theories from leading experts, including historically dominant
traditions such as realism, and liberalism, to theories such as postcolonialism and green …

It has become widely accepted that the discipline of International Relations (IR) is ironically
not" international" at all. IR scholars are part of a global discipline with a single, shared …

In this article, we critique the Eurocentric character of security studies as it has developed
since World War II. The taken-for-granted historical geographies that underpin security …