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 ...

The academic study of international relations is valuable even if it can’t solve the world’s problem single-handedly.

‘Theory should help us live … and give us tools to resist and rebuild’ A postdoctoral research fellow at Queen Mary University of London is “working to reshape” the field of international relations ...

PostEverything International relations theory in the past 30 years. If Salma Hayek returned to the academy, what would she have missed?

Theories of international relations have often incorporated assumptions about time horizons—a metaphor for how heavily actors value the future relative to the present. However, they have not built on ...

Rather, as international relations theorist Daniel Nexon writes, a patchwork of inheritances and additions created “dynastic agglomerations.” The Habsburg dominions in the mid-16th century ...

While international relations (IR) paradigms were all the rage back when I was in graduate school, the past decade has mostly de-emphasized these grand theories.

THOMAS J. CHRISTENSEN is James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and Interim Dean at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he directs the China and the ...

Much of the work of interstate relations is ultimately carried out by bureaucrats. Individual officers within diplomatic, military, and intelligence bureaucracies, trade and investment agencies, and ...

International Relations (IR) is the study of international and transnational politics broadly understood. Work in the IR subfield is attentive to exchanges and processes among states, peoples, ...

Allen's book connects popular video games, such as "League of Legends" and "Minecraft," to international relations theories, making complex concepts more accessible.

The different international relations theories also provide a much greater variety of possible outcomes than the Hollywood zombie canon. Traditional zombie narratives in film and fiction are quick ...