International Relations
@irjournal.bsky.social
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.
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Online first article available #OpenAccess:
East or West, Chinese experience is the best: A social interpretation of the Chinese IR Sino-centric tradition
Authored by Peng Lu
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
East or West, Chinese experience is the best: A social interpretation of the Chinese IR Sino-centric tradition
Authored by Peng Lu
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
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January 20, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Online first article available #OpenAccess:
East or West, Chinese experience is the best: A social interpretation of the Chinese IR Sino-centric tradition
Authored by Peng Lu
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
East or West, Chinese experience is the best: A social interpretation of the Chinese IR Sino-centric tradition
Authored by Peng Lu
doi.org/10.1177/0047...
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...
#IR #governance #UNGA
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...
#IR #governance #UNGA
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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January 19, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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...
#IR #governance #UNGA
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...
#IR #governance #UNGA
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...
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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January 15, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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...
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...
Online first, available #Open Access:
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Online first, available #Open Access:
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Online First, available #OpenAccess:
Focal organizations under global governance complexity: introducing and applying a new conceptual framework
Authored by Francesco Gatti
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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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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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January 14, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Online First, available #OpenAccess:
Focal organizations under global governance complexity: introducing and applying a new conceptual framework
Authored by Francesco Gatti
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Focal organizations under global governance complexity: introducing and applying a new conceptual framework
Authored by Francesco Gatti
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New article available #OpenAccess:
Species level threat: when security goes to the birds
Authored by Benjamin Meiches
#Species #IR #Birdstrike #Security
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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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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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December 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
New article available #OpenAccess:
Species level threat: when security goes to the birds
Authored by Benjamin Meiches
#Species #IR #Birdstrike #Security
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Species level threat: when security goes to the birds
Authored by Benjamin Meiches
#Species #IR #Birdstrike #Security
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The latest is of International Relations is out!
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The latest is of International Relations is out!
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
➡️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
December 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New article available #OpenAccess:
Where are the Pacific Islands in the Political Science and International Relations scholarship?
Authored by Joanne Wallis and Maima Koro
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#PacificIslands #IR #politicalscience
Where are the Pacific Islands in the Political Science and International Relations scholarship?
Authored by Joanne Wallis and Maima Koro
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#PacificIslands #IR #politicalscience
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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December 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New article available #OpenAccess:
Where are the Pacific Islands in the Political Science and International Relations scholarship?
Authored by Joanne Wallis and Maima Koro
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#PacificIslands #IR #politicalscience
Where are the Pacific Islands in the Political Science and International Relations scholarship?
Authored by Joanne Wallis and Maima Koro
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#PacificIslands #IR #politicalscience
New article available #OpenAccess:
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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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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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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November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New article available #OpenAccess:
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New online first article available #OpenAccess:
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New online first article available #OpenAccess:
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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 🌟
Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9
Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟
Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
'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 🌟
Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9
Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟
Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9
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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
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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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Tonight! ⬇️
International Relations is excited to welcome Professor Bridget Anderson to @interpolaber.bsky.social for the E. H. Carr Annual Memorial Lecture
October 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Tonight! ⬇️
International Relations is excited to welcome Professor Bridget Anderson to @interpolaber.bsky.social for the E. H. Carr Annual Memorial Lecture
October 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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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📢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: 👇
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: 👇
October 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
📢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: 👇
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: 👇
New online first article available #OpenAccess:
‘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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#Brazil #Space #China #America #IR
‘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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#Brazil #Space #China #America #IR
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October 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
New online first article available #OpenAccess:
‘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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#Brazil #Space #China #America #IR
‘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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#Brazil #Space #China #America #IR
New online first article:
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period
Authored by John G. Oates
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period
Authored by John G. Oates
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New online first article:
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period
Authored by John G. Oates
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period
Authored by John G. Oates
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period
Authored by John G. Oates
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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September 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Popular internationalism and international organization: the effort to empower public opinion and its limits during the interwar period
Authored by John G. Oates
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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
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
September 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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
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
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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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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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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September 3, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Why and how do regional organizations intervene without a mandate in democratic crises? The Central American case
Authored by Kevin Parthenay
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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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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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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September 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly
Authored by Bimal Adhikari, Jeffrey King and Lie Philip Santoso
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The latest set of trending articles @irjournal.bsky.social
#Canon #Climate #Critique #Futures #Massacres #Migration #Militarism #Personality #Securitisation #Trump #War
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#Canon #Climate #Critique #Futures #Massacres #Migration #Militarism #Personality #Securitisation #Trump #War
👉👉👉 journals.sagepub.com/home/IRE
August 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The latest set of trending articles @irjournal.bsky.social
#Canon #Climate #Critique #Futures #Massacres #Migration #Militarism #Personality #Securitisation #Trump #War
👉👉👉 journals.sagepub.com/home/IRE
#Canon #Climate #Critique #Futures #Massacres #Migration #Militarism #Personality #Securitisation #Trump #War
👉👉👉 journals.sagepub.com/home/IRE
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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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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 ...
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August 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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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
▶️ journals.sagepub.com/home/ire
August 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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
▶️ journals.sagepub.com/home/ire
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
▶️ journals.sagepub.com/home/ire