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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.

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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Sep 18
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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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 - 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
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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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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
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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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October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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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
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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 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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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
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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 🖼️

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October 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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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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October 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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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October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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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September 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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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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September 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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 - 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
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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
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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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August 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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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
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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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August 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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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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August 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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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
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July 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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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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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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July 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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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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June 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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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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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May 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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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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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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May 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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
May 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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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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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May 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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New @irjournal.bsky.social online first article available #OpenAccess:

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

Authored by Campbell Craig

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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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May 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM