What's the point of international relations?

Casting a critical eye on what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach international relations (IR), this work brings together many of IR's leading thinkers to challenge conventional understandings of the discipline's origins, history, and composition.

It sees IR as a discipline that has much to learn from others, which has not yet lived up to its ambitions or potential, and where much work remains to be done.

At the same time, it finds much that is worth celebrating in the discipline's growing pluralism and views IR as a deeply political, critical, and normative pursuit.