At conferences, at seminars, and on political science blogs, the potential utility of
experimental methods for international relations (IR) research continues to be a hotly …

The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious
manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline.... Vitalis has also …

Theory creating and hypothesis testing are both critical components of social science, but
the former is ultimately more important. Yet, in recent years, International Relations scholars …

This article analyzes the core–periphery dynamics that characterize the International
Relations discipline. To this end, it explores general insights offered by both science studies …

International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic
Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption …

International Relations (IR) theorists speak with conviction, and often passion, to the global
condition of human society. The result is an important, dynamic and often deeply divided …

Why do governments choose multilateralism? We examine a principal-agent model in which
states trade some control over the policy for greater burden sharing. The theory generates …

Every year a staggering number of unidentified shell corporations succeed in hiding
perpetrators of terrorist financing, corruption and illegal arms trades, but the degree to which …

What do the most senior national security policymakers want from international relations
scholars? To answer that question, we administered a unique survey to current and former …

Concerns about the end of International Relations theory pivot around at least three different
issues: the fading of the 'paradigm wars' associated with the 1990s and early 2000s; the …