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H-Diplo | ISSF Roundtable 14-7 on Barder, Global Race War: International Politics and Racial Hierarchy

December 19, 2022December 2, 2022 By Alexander D. Barder, Robert Vitalis, Krista Johnson, Audie Klotz, Stephen Pampinella

“Theory” makes the world of the professors go ‘round. It is the gold ring on the dissertation-award, post-doc, tenure ladder, lead article, monograph, promotion, citation count endowed chair carousel. In political science in the United States the dominant view of theory among a self-identified ‘mainstream’ roughly corresponds to that of their colleagues in the natural…

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H-Diplo|ISSF Roundtable 14-3: Teaching Critical Approaches to International Relations

November 18, 2022November 9, 2022 By Lucian M. Ashworth, Zeynep Gulsah Capan, Priya Dixit, Zenel Garcia, Georg Löfflmann

I very much enjoyed reading the four contributions to this roundtable. The theme that runs through all four is the different journeys, taken by different people, that nonetheless led to similar conclusions about how we can teach International Relations (IR). Underlying all this, for me at least, is a disquieting feeling that, over the last…

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Policy Series 2021-22: The Trump Presidency: Trump 1, IR Theory 0

April 15, 2021April 9, 2021 By Michael N. Barnett

Four years ago I was asked to address whether IR theory might help us understand the coming Trump presidency. I answered “no” for several reasons.  IR theory is better at explanation than prediction.  Even if it was reasonably good at prediction, its theories were completely outmatched by Donald Trump.  Most IR theories are premised on…

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Policy Series: Will Trumpism increase the Danger of War in the International System?: IR Theory and the Illiberal Turn in World Politics

April 27, 2017September 4, 2017 By Benjamin Miller

This short piece focuses on mapping and evaluating some of the expectations of International Relations (IR) theory with regard to the potential effects of Trumpism and the illiberal turn in world politics on war and peace.[1] Obviously, there is a high degree of uncertainty here, but that does not mean that such an intellectual exercise…

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Policy Series: Trump and International Relations Theory: A Response to Robert Jervis’s “President Trump and IR Theory”

February 7, 2017February 8, 2017 By Michael N. Barnett

Can IR theory help us understand what is about to happen? Can it help get us through the Age of Trump? Or, will Trump destroy IR theory in the same way that he eviscerated most accepted theories of electoral politics? In a cage match between Trump and Theory, the smart bet might be on Trump,…

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Policy Series: President Trump and IR Theory

January 2, 2017February 1, 2017 By Robert Jervis

I never thought that I would write the phrase “President Trump,” let alone link it to IR theory. But the former is a great opportunity for the latter. Scholars of international politics bemoan the fact that our sub-field cannot draw on the experimental method. Well, now we can. Although Trump’s election was not a random…

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