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The empire of civil society mounts a compelling critique of the orthodox “realist” theory of international relations and provides a historical-materialist approach to the international system. Opening ...

Murdoch University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. For those of us fortunate enough to make a living studying international relations, these are interesting times. Some of our ...

This essay argues that India’s analytical under-engagement with the ideological dimensions of Iranian statecraft is not a policy failure but a theoretical one: a structural consequence of what I term ...

Neoclassical realism represents an adaptive framework within international relations theory that integrates the structural insights of neorealism with key domestic variables to explain state behaviour ...

The resignation in September of 2021 of Professor Beverly Gage from her role as head of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale has put the academic study of international relations (IR) ...

Defensive realism is a theory of international relations that’s a useful lens to look through in order to analyze international politics today. The essence of defensive realism is that as a state ...

Garry Kasparov, the renowned Russian dissident, recently observed that the Biden administration may be covertly negotiating with Russia to reach “land for peace” deals and many would-be experts are ...