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We welcome articles and proposals from all perspectives and on all subjects pertaining to international relations: law, economics, ethics, strategy, philosophy, culture, environment, and more. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ire

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Crisis and disorder in the liberal international order of White sovereignty

Authored by Owen R Brown

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New online first article available:

Crisis and disorder in the liberal international order of White sovereignty

Authored by Owen R Brown

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17.02.2026 15:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

Happy to see that my article "The international cooperation of the populist radical right: building counter-hegemony in international relations" has finally been assigned to a volume and issue in @irjournal.bsky.social. You can read it #openaccess here: doi.org/10.1177/0047...

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

Authored by Patrick O Cohrs

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

Authored by Patrick O Cohrs

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27.01.2026 15:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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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20.01.2026 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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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#IR #governance #UNGA

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Online first article available #OpenAccess:

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

doi.org/10.1177/0047...

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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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15.01.2026 13:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

Authored by Francesco Gatti

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14.01.2026 10:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

Authored by Benjamin Meiches

#Species #IR #Birdstrike #Security

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19.12.2025 09:21 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The latest is of International Relations is out!

15.12.2025 19:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Latest issue of International Relations is out!

➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/IRE/current

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

#Race #Asylum #Ukraine

15.12.2025 14:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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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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#PacificIslands #IR #politicalscience

11.12.2025 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

#Climatechange #Obstruction #Media #IR #Transnational #Thinktank

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04.11.2025 13:35 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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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

Authored by Sebastian Biba

#IR #UnitedStates #China #Power #Rivalry

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30.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Alternative ecological futures: Art climate change & the radical imagination' new event with Environment and Climate Politics Working Group 🌳

Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟

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29.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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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

22.10.2025 09:15 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Tonight! ⬇️

23.10.2025 07:07 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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

22.10.2025 09:15 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS 📢

Critical Alternative for World Politics (CAWP) invites you to submit your papers, panels, and roundtables for this year's @mybisa.bsky.social in Brighton!

This year's theme is: 🕶️ Images and Imaginaries of International Relations 🖼️

See the CfP below: 👇

21.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 2
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‘Active non-alignment’ in outer space: Brazil’s hedging strategy in the Sino-American space race

Authored by Luis da Vinha and Vinicius Guedes Gonçalves de Oliveira

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#Brazil #Space #China #America #IR

21.10.2025 10:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period

Authored by John G. Oates

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Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period - John G. Oates, 2025 Much of contemporary global governance can be described as an elite-led enterprise that relies upon expert judgment to design and implement international policy...

New online first article available #OpenAccess:

Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period

Authored by John G. Oates

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23.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The latest issue of International Relations is out!

An exciting line up starting with Prof Kimberly Hutching's E H Carr lecture; this series of articles seeks to de-colonise, globalise and broaden #IR perspectives and topics

➡️ journals.sagepub.com/toc/ireb/39/3

18.09.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Why and how do regional organizations intervene without a mandate in democratic crises? The Central American case - Kevin Parthenay, 2025 How and why do Regional Organizations (ROs) intervene in intra-state political crises without a mandate? We have observed on recent occasions and in different w...

New @irjournal.bsky.social online first article:

Why and how do regional organizations intervene without a mandate in democratic crises? The Central American case

Authored by Kevin Parthenay

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03.09.2025 09:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly - Bimal Adhikari, Jeffrey King, Lie Philip Santoso, 2025 Does the gender of political leaders shape a country’s foreign policy? Some suggest that women leaders are more likely to express similar foreign policy prefere...

New @irjournal.bsky.social online first article available #OpenAccess:

Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly

Authored by Bimal Adhikari, Jeffrey King and Lie Philip Santoso

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01.09.2025 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The latest set of trending articles @irjournal.bsky.social

#Canon #Climate #Critique #Futures #Massacres #Migration #Militarism #Personality #Securitisation #Trump #War

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18.08.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan - Charles W Mahoney, 2025 This article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the factors influencing U.S. arms transfers to Taiwan from 1950 to 2020. For decades, policy analysts ...

U.S. arms sales to Taiwan aren’t mainly about helping Taiwan defend itself. My new article in @irjournal.bsky.social shows they’re for political signaling purposes—diplomacy toward both China and Taiwan—and economic support for the U.S. defense industry.

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11.08.2025 18:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What's trending in International Relations?

A set of 5 journal articles dating from December 2002 to August 2025 covering diverse #IR subject matter:

#Militarism #Climate #Canon #Decolonisation #Deterrence #Taiwan #Trump

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11.08.2025 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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