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Interrogating the foundations of public diplomacy’s theory and practice: ‘resilient contact’ and the Fulbright English Teaching Assistants Program

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Mapping outer space norms: A user’s guide for norm structures and change

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Public intellectual and the prison of theory: John J. Mearsheimer

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Outrage balancing: A theory of aggressive foreign policy with evidence from the Pacific War

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Outrage balancing: A theory of aggressive foreign policy with evidence from the Pacific War - Ryuta Ito, 2026 Why do leaders sometimes pursue aggressive policies driven by outrage rather than by rational calculation? Although anger has long been recognised in internatio...

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Revisionism or replacementism? Disruptive and constructive challenges to the liberal international order

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Crisis and disorder in the liberal international order of White sovereignty

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The international cooperation of the populist radical right: building counter-hegemony in international relations - Thorsten Wojczewski, 2026 This article analyses the international cooperation of the radical right and the role of populism in forging cross-border ties between different political proje...

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The struggle for a liberal world order transformations, learning processes and the global challenges of the long 20th century

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East or West, Chinese experience is the best: A social interpretation of the Chinese IR Sino-centric tradition

Authored by Peng Lu

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The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020) - Jens Steffek, Ana Schenk, Marcus Müller, 2025 The concept of aspirational politics has intrigued scholars of international policy fields in which noble goals contrast with poor performance. In this article,...

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The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020)

Authored by Jens Steffek, Ana Schenk and Marcus Müller

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The rise and fall of liberal aspirations in international politics: the good governance agenda in the United Nations General Assembly (1970–2020)

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Focal organizations under global governance complexity: introducing and applying a new conceptual framework - Francesco Gatti, 2025 The article introduces and applies a novel conceptual framework for understanding focal organizations and focality within the context of global governance compl...

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Focal organizations under global governance complexity: introducing and applying a new conceptual framework

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Species level threat: when security goes to the birds - Benjamin Meiches, 2025 This article examines the securitization of ‘birdstrike’ or a vehicular collision between an aircraft and a bird. It examines how dominant understandings of bir...

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Species level threat: when security goes to the birds

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Latest issue of International Relations is out!

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Contributions by:
K.M. Fierke & Nicola Mackay
Jonathan Kent
James Foley
Molly Ruhiman
Eviatar Matania & Udi Sommer
Ash Rossiter
Ellis Mallett & Nicholas Kitchen
Panos Vasileiadis

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Where are the Pacific Islands in the Political Science and International Relations scholarship? - Joanne Wallis, Maima Koro, 2025 A decade ago, Amitav Acharya outlined his ‘new agenda’ for International Relations (IR) scholars: ‘Global International Relations’. This article seeks to modest...

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Where are the Pacific Islands in the Political Science and International Relations scholarship?

Authored by Joanne Wallis and Maima Koro

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Think tank output as media input: a case study of transnational climate obstructionism - James Painter, Dieter Plehwe, Jose A. Moreno, 2025 Transnational networks of neoliberal think tanks have invested time and resources in creating cross-country strategy mobility to oppose climate action. Building...

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Think tank output as media input: a case study of transnational climate obstructionism

Authored by James Painter, Dieter Plehwe, Jose A. Moreno

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Alignment in times of United States-China great-power rivalry: how the search for ‘like-minded’ partners promotes bloc building - Sebastian Biba, 2025 Alignment building in the international system has recently gathered pace, thereby nurturing an underlying argument about the return of geopolitical blocs. But ...

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Alignment in times of United States-China great-power rivalry: how the search for ‘like-minded’ partners promotes bloc building

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International Relations is excited to welcome Professor Bridget Anderson to @interpolaber.bsky.social for the E. H. Carr Annual Memorial Lecture