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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · 18h

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

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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · 21d

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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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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · 26d

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Sep 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 - 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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

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 - 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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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

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Charles Mahoney @charleswmahoney.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Aug 11

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

New online first article available #OpenAccess:

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Jun 30

New @irjournal.bsky.social available online first:

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 15

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 22

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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Hannah Hughes @hannahhughes.bsky.social · May 15

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

International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 15

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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 15

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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 13

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 12

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

International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 12

New online first article available #OpenAccess:

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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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 8

New online first article available #OpenAccess:

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

Authored by Malte Brosig

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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 7

New International Relations online first article trending:

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

Authored by Nguyen Cong Tung

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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · May 7

New online first article:

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

Authored by Nguyen Cong Tung

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Leslie Wehner @lesliewehner.bsky.social · Apr 16

Finally out as online first - coauthored with @theseangarrett we explore the relationship policy and roles through the case of UK and Germany as faithfully allies of Ukraine. More details and link to the article in Sean’s thread ⬇️ @irjournal.bsky.social

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Sean Garrett @theseangarrett.bsky.social · Apr 16

New Publication Alert! Myself and @lesliewehner.bsky.social present our new paper: Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine. Available in @irjournal.bsky.social.

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Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine - Sean Garrett, Leslie Wehner, 2025

This paper establishes the nexus of roles and policy from the perspective of foreign policy role theory. This relationship has been usually assumed but rarely u...

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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Apr 4

What's trending this Friday in the journal of International Relations?

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#warfare #nuclear #reactionary #imperialism #development #terror #torture