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Getting Started with International Relations Theory
The sheer volume of different IR theories should be a warning to you that International Relations still is a young discipline that is undergoing significant formative development.
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Realism and Power Transition Theory: Different Branches of the Power Tree
While realism and power transition theory are often merged together it is important to regard and embrace them as different branches of the power tree.
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IR’s ‘Isms’ Are Evil. All Hail the ‘Isms’!
Nothing is gained by rejecting the isms unless we at first understand the complexity of what it is we are rejecting and then develop the critical reflection we need to move beyond them.
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The Dangers of Parochialism in International Relations
If our aim is to build a more inclusive discipline, we should be cautious of outrightly rejecting existing knowledge without critically engaging with it.
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Interview – Tamás Peragovics
Tamás Peragovics discusses his PhD research on the normalization process between the US and China, Chinese foreign policy and the Western-centrism of IR.
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The ‘Forgotten Double’: Reflections at a Johannesburg War Memorial
Experiences of ‘the international’ include folklore, legend, and oral history - places where IR is unable to go because of its preoccupation with rationality and order. It is time this cloak is removed.
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A Comprehensive Introduction to International Relations and IR Theory
E-International Relations offers two textbooks exploring foundational elements of the discipline to beginners. Both books are free to access on the website and also on sale in paperback worldwide.
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Recrafting International Relations through Relationality
International Relations must be reconceptualised to prioritize the relations that constitute units rather than to proceed from the assumption that units are self-evident.
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Reversibility: A New Concept for Policy Studies in International Relations
Reversibility seeks to encourage and further the synergy of scholarly expertise, rethinking the ways we conceive of politics and the human world and how to tackle, if not solve current challenges.
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The Italian Approach to International Relations
While the Italian IR scholarly production follows the trend developed in America, other European schools could suggest a more heterogeneous IR theoretical panorama.
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Student Feature – Theory in Action: Marxism, Migrants and Borders
Marxist IR theory challenges the notion of borders by focusing on the injustices capitalism creates.
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Student Feature – Theory in Action: Towards a Global IR?
By widening the concept of agency, global IR puts center stage the voices of the South, its perspectives on global order and the dynamics of North–South relations.
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Review – The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth
Mandelbaum's book is an analytically flawed, contradictory and unconventional piece of realist scholarship that considers the instability of the post-Cold War period.
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Student Feature – Theory in Action: Asian Perspectives on a ‘Chinese School’
The Chinese School's concept of relationality provides more valuable insight into the conflict with the Philippines than could be expected from mainstream IR theory.
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Heteronomy: Tyranny of a Construct?
While states were pre-modern in a variety of ways, these differences are not greater than those differentiating the early-modern, high-modern, or late-modern era.
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