International Relations at W&M promotes the systematic study of political, economic, and historic relations among states and other actors in the international system. Students and faculty explore ...

In many ways, the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was really just a warm-up act for the main event — the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting earlier this month.

Six articles in the issue examine the place of feminist theories in the discipline of international relations, or “IR” as it is known to specialists. In the first article, V. Spike Peterson, an ...

There is only one world, but theories of international relations abound. Indeed, since the birth of the discipline of international studies after the First World War, many new theories have emerged.

They are each built on one of three paradigms that has dominated international relations theory since World War II: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Realists see politics as rooted in anarchy, ...

Over a distinguished career, Lebow has consistently challenged conventional categories of thinking about international relations. In this magisterial new volume, he lays out his own sweeping theory of ...

A successor relation between theories T und T₁ express that T₁, the successor of T, has justifiably superseded T. In physics, for instance, Newton's theory of gravitation has superseded Kepler's laws ...

Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations, Vol. 21, No. 82, Special Issue: Marxism and International Relations: Still a Case of Mutual Neglect (2024), pp. 5-20 (16 pages) Although the neglect ...

This course is compulsory on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations.

Yesterday’s post about the stale quality of international relations theory provoked some pushback from international relations scholars. It also probably generated some bemusement by economists. This ...

Debating International Relations and Exploring Current Trends (DIRECT), a new student group devoted to international relations (IR), was formed this fall in order to explore global current events and ...