International Relations

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

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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

📢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 🖼️

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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

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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...

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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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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

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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...

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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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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...

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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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The latest set of trending articles @irjournal.bsky.social

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

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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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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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Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan

Authored by Charles W Mahoney

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#diplomacy #deterrence #US #Taiwan

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Litigating war: Russia’s invasion and Ukraine’s escalating legal rhetoric at the International Court of Justice

Authored by Franziska Boehme

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#Russia #Ukraine #war #ICJ

Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries - Sergiu Buscaneanu, Andrew X Li, 2025 Why do states select different regional integration projects? Previous literature explains regional integration choices with reference to strategic and economic...

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Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries

Authored by Sergiu Buscaneanu and Andrew X Li

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Migrant stories meet great power rivalry? US media narratives of post-pandemic Chinese asylum seekers, 2022–2023

Authored by Sibei Sun

#migration #asylum #us #china #narratives #media

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Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought - Kimberly Hutchings, 2025 The paper proceeds in two main sections. First, it sketches out the nature of critique as a de-canonising practice within IR theory and how critique has itself ...

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Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought

Authored by Kimberly Hutchings

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Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought - Kimberly Hutchings, 2025 The paper proceeds in two main sections. First, it sketches out the nature of critique as a de-canonising practice within IR theory and how critique has itself ...

Professor Kimberly Hutching's E. H. Carr Lecture is now free to access for the next 3 months. Download your copy now :-)

"Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought"

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In October 2023, Professor Kim Hutchings came to @interpolaber.bsky.social and gave a very engaging and timely EH Carr lecture on 'Thinking with the enemy: critique is dead but it won't lie down'. Her write up of this lecture is now available online first @irjournal.bsky.social

Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought - Kimberly Hutchings, 2025 The paper proceeds in two main sections. First, it sketches out the nature of critique as a de-canonising practice within IR theory and how critique has itself ...

Read Professor Kimberly Hutchings 2023 EH Carr Memorial Lecture given @interpolaber.bsky.social online first:

Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought

Authored by Kimberly Hutchings

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The normative problem of nuclear war in the thought of Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer - Campbell Craig, 2025 Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer are the two most important exponents of the International Relations theory of Structural Realism. A key epistemological compo...

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The normative problem of nuclear war in the thought of Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer

Authored by Campbell Craig

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A diverse list of articles and topics in @irjournal.bsky.social most cited list:

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#nuclear #disarmament #liberal #international #order #gender #health #rights #animal #welfare #unitednations

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Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine

Authored by Sean Garrett and Leslie Wehner

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From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR

Authored by Malte Brosig

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Revisiting socialization in international relations: the case of inter-party diplomacy between China and Vietnam

Authored by Nguyen Cong Tung

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Revisiting socialization in international relations: the case of inter-party diplomacy between China and Vietnam

Authored by Nguyen Cong Tung

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