Randall Schweller, Maxwell’s Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) The end of traditional IR theory does not mean that IR scholars ...

“Until recently International Relations (IR) theory had little to say about religion,” Prof. Haynes tells the Tehran Times. “Today, however, many scholars seek to theories about religion when talking ...

Editor’s Note: WOTR is proud to feature this guest contribution by Stephen M. Saideman. Please read our submissions policy here. The principal-agent problem is difficult in international relations ...

“Religious, sectarian, ethnic and tribal dimensions of international relations have become increasingly important and these dimensions have to be integrated into any universal theory,” Hossein Askari, ...

One of the major debates in the study of international relations (IR) during the Cold War period was between Liberalism, Realism and Marxism as different theoretical approaches to world politics.

Most of our knowledge of the Peloponnesian War comes from the text of Thucydides' History, yet IR scholars are strangely credulous when evaluating Thucydides' pronouncements. I explore what Thucydides ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Concerns over inequalities that have been located between the roles of the core and periphery within the development of the IR discipline have ...