#Geopolitics #ElitePower #InternationalRelations #Epstein #Iran #PowerNetworks #GlobalPolitics #WarAndPower #PoliticalEconomy #LiberalInternationalOrder #Accountability #ForeignPolicy #IRTheory #GlobalElites #WarEconomy

There's a version of Realism where what matters isn't your relative gains, or even your relative losses — it's your allies' relative losses. Still looking for its proper theoretical name. Anyone? #IRtheory #Realism"

The End of Autocratic Norm Adaptation? US Retrenchment and Liberal Norms in Illiberal Regimes | International Organization | Cambridge Core The End of Autocratic Norm Adaptation? US Retrenchment and Liberal Norms in Illiberal Regimes - Volume 79 Issue S1

In this new @iojournal.bsky.social article, the authors explore whether illiberal regimes will roll back liberal reforms as US support for democracy declines, arguing that liberal norm adaptation in autocracies is likely to endure due to how embedded they are in domestic politics. #IRTheory #IRNorms

In this episode, Professor David M. McCourt unpacks the foundations of New Constructivism: where it came from, what it demands of researchers, and where it's heading. #constructivism #newconstructivism #irtheory

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Localization in World Politics Listen to episodes and learn more about Localization in World Politics. Hosts Jennifer Welsh (Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security; Director of the Centre for International…

This account will be used to spotlight cutting-edge research on international norms, relevant news, research outputs from the project and newly published episodes of our podcast.

#IRTheory #IRNorms #TransitionalJustice #ProtectionofCivilians #CivilianProtection #Localization #GlobalGovernance

Promotional graphic announcing the release of Sasikumar Sundaram's Rhetorical Powers: How Rising States Shape International Order. It includes the book's cover and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Now available! A bracing challenge to established theories of power in international relations, RHETORICAL POWERS underscores the need to address enduring forms of silencing within the international order. buff.ly/zEeEeKQ #GlobalSouth #PowerPolitics #RiseOfTheRest #PowerOfWords #IRTheory

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Like the classic security dilemma—where one state's defensive measures provoke insecurity in others—these share a core paradox: efforts to make something more secure can end up making it less so.

#SecurityDilemma #IRTheory

In this incisive interview, Dr Madalitso Zililo Phiri dismantles the epistemic hegemony of Eurocentric International Relations theory and maps an emergent African IR scholarship.

#AfricanIR #IRtheory

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Imagine being in an international relations class like I am right now. Having to find real life examples of IR theories and trying not to spin your own personal views into the theories. Let me say, we are only on module 2 folks and it is not going well. #liberalism #irtheory #internationalrelations

3/ Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.

📢 Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of JCEAS on "Norm Contestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. Link to full CfP below 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v61o... #IRtheory #IRnorms

The Exception Lives: Diego Garcia and the Illusion of Legal Resolution The Exception Lives: Diego Garcia and the Illusion of Legal Resolution

Power hasn’t yielded to law. It’s learned to speak it fluently.

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#CarlSchmitt #DiegoGarcia #sovereignty #exception #Chagos #IRtheory #Echo12B

Book Review-How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy - Stratheia John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato’s How States Think postulates a provocative thesis: contrary to much current discussion of intellectual biases and emotional decision-making, states act as…

From Crimea to Iraq, the book recasts key decisions as logical—even if flawed. A bold defense of realism.
#InternationalRelations #Realism #IRTheory
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Book Review-How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy - Stratheia John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato’s How States Think postulates a provocative thesis: contrary to much current discussion of intellectual biases and emotional decision-making, states act as…

In a world obsessed with values, this book reminds us: power still speaks the loudest.
#HowStatesThink #Mearsheimer #IRTheory
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States don’t dream. They calculate. Mearsheimer & Rosato’s How States Think redefines foreign policy through realist logic.
#Realism #IRTheory #Statecraft
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Identity in International Relations - Richard Ned Lebow | 2024 Episode 1

Join Prof. Richard Ned Lebow as we explore how memory, perception, and collective identity influence state behaviour, political order, and conflict.

#IdentityPolitics #Constructivism #IRTheory

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Multiplicity and the problem of ‘society’ - Justin Rosenberg, 2025 This article seeks to address a major shortcoming of the idea of Societal Multiplicity in international theory: its lack of a worked-out definition of what coun...

Justin Rosenberg's latest piece on 'multiplicity' and International Relations @ejir.bsky.social

#polisky #IRtheory

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#IR / #internationalrelations / #IRtheory needs to reckon with its #ableism problem - not to mention the way these metaphors are fused with racist, colonial, imperial and other oppressive logics 3/ #academicsky

Autism in International Relations: A critical assessment of International Relations’ autism metaphors Download Citation | Autism in International Relations: A critical assessment of International Relations’ autism metaphors | In this article, I explain how International Relations scholarship relates t...

Belatedly reading this v interesting article on the use of autism metaphors in #IR & #IRtheory. It shows how major thinkers in the field have framed 'autism' as self-centeredness, violence, childishness, loneliness & many other negative stereotypes 1/ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🚨 A reminder that we still welcome submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize until 2nd May. Further details below. #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

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Uneven and Combined Development has a new website!

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#internationalrelations, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs

Excited to engage with fellow scholars & practitioners at #ISA2025 in Chicago! If you're around, let’s connect. #GlobalSouth #AfricaInIR #IRTheory @globalsouthshub.bsky.social

As @bsky.app thinks a book prize call is Spam....

📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

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📢 We invite submissions for the 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize. Details below. Please share widely! 🚨 #IR #int-rel #IRTheory #internationalrelations #worldpolitics #internationalpolitics

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Do you have a state of the art paper on the key theories, concepts and debates in regional security? We are particularly welcoming the papers engaging with contemporary debates and historical development of regional security. Send us your queries/abstracts at jrs@fpn.bg.ac.rs #Int-rel #IR #IRTheory

How the global, regional and national perspectives play out in the Arctic region, including the role of and interaction between great powers, small states and international institutions across the region? Send us your queries/abstracts at jrs@fpn.bg.ac.rs #Int-rel #IR #IRTheory #worldpolitics

I've just sent my professor my research proposal on the JGSDF's early strategic culture!! #history #irtheory

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#internationalrelations, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs

Hello International Relations/Politics/Security people.

This is your periodic reminder that there’s an IR feed here and these are the hashtags it picks up:

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