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International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · 20d

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

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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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...

Ties that bind? Women leaders’ voting congruence in the United Nations General Assembly - Bimal Adhikari, Jeffrey King, Lie Philip Santoso, 2025

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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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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...

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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Deterrence, dollars, or diplomacy? Why the United States sells arms to Taiwan - Charles W Mahoney, 2025

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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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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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Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries - Sergiu Buscaneanu, Andrew X Li, 2025

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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Why do states select different regional integration projects? Previous literature explains regional integration choices with reference to strategic and economic...

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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Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought - Kimberly Hutchings, 2025

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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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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 ...

Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought - Kimberly Hutchings, 2025

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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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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 ...

Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought - Kimberly Hutchings, 2025

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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/...

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 ...

Resisting the canon: critique, abolition and doing epistemic justice in reading the history of international thought - Kimberly Hutchings, 2025

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/...

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 ...

The normative problem of nuclear war in the thought of Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer - Campbell Craig, 2025

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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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Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer are the two most important exponents of the International Relations theory of Structural Realism. A key epistemological compo...

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

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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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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

International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social · Mar 31

New online first article available #OpenAccess:

Repositioning middle powers in international hierarchies of status and order

Authored by Alexander M Hynd

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