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Farewell to revolution: the ‘Chinese School of IR’ and the depoliticisation of IR theory in post-Mao China
During the last years, coinciding with the rise of non-Western IR theory and Global IR, IR scholars have become interested in the study of the...
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Global IR Research Programme The Futuristic Foundation of ‘One and Many’
The Global IR research programme promulgates a borderless ecology of cultures that has only an inside without an outside. This borderless ecology of...
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Critical IR Theories and Artificial Intelligence: Constructivistm, Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Green Theory
Among some of the most impactful emerging paradigms in IR are constructivism, postcolonial theory, feminism, and green theory. Whereas realism and...
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IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics
This article critically engages with the hierarchical binary between theory and area research in the study of international politics. We pose...
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Global IR: A Paradigm? No, a Research Programme
The conventional IR theories answer the query related to one-and-many-ness of the world in an ‘either-or’ fashion: presumably, either we live in one...
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Classical Liberalism and IR Theory
Most international relations (IR) scholars are unaware of the richness of the liberal tradition. Classical liberalism is largely absent from liberal...
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A Typology of Identity Research in IR
How has identity been understood, theorized, and analyzed in IR? This chapter develops a typology of identity research that not only describes the...
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Race in IR: toward empirical study
Errol Henderson writes “the banality of white supremacy, more than the democratic peace thesis, is probably ‘the closest thing to an empirical law in...
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The Emergence of the ‘Chinese School of IR’ During the Post-reform Era (2008–2022)
This chapter delves into whether the pursuit of establishing an indigenous IR theory during the post-reform era, under the ‘Chinese School of IR,’...
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Theory and Methodology
Studying NGOs in China’s foreign policy presents two challenges: first, as Kelly explains: “the role of NGOs in IR theory is in a ‘pre-paradigmatic’...
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Falling Short: International Order and Revisionism in IR Theory
International order and revisionism are key concepts in international affairs. This chapter reviews the theoretical state of the art and builds on...
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Latin American Thinkers of Peace and Global IR
This is the concluding chapter in the book. It summarizes the main findings and highlights the commonalities as well as the differences among the...
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Africa in the Study of International Relations: The (Double) Realist Bias of Global IR
The Global IR research agenda lays emphasis on the marginalised, non-Western forms of power and knowledge that underpin today’s international system....
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Global IR: A Glimpse of Somewhere? No, of Anywhere
Our basic expectations vis-à-vis ‘the international’ have turned our phenomenal existence into two seemingly irreconcilable cognitive prisons: ‘one...
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Global IR: An Agenda of One or Many? No, of One and Many
The Global IR research programme proposes an innovative practice of theory-building and policy-making which seeks to transcend the geo-centric...
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Linklater and Critical International Relations Theory
This chapter centres on Andrew Linklater’s scholarship on international politics, arguably the highest achievement of the Critical IR Theory...
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The Benchmark Thinkers’ Impact on IR
This chapter introduces the five benchmark thinkers considered in the book—J. A. Hobson, H. N. Brailsford, L. S. Woolf, H. J. Laski, and R. N....
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A Distinctive and Overlooked Socialist IR Approach
This chapter explores the ways in which the insights of the benchmark thinkers of the book differ from Marxist accounts in relation to imperialism....
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Carr’s Lessons for Post-colonial IR
This chapter aims to show that Carr’s work opens avenues for engagement between classical realism and post-colonialism across two debates relevant to...