Scholarship on international norms has recently begun to explore how domestic‐level
structures and processes affect compliance. This literature has identified the domestic …

This article reviews the state of the discipline of international relations. It starts from
statements made by the editors in their editorial published in the first issue of this journal …

Culture matters in social theory construction because the metaphysical component of the
theoretical hard core is primarily shaped by the background knowledge of a cultural …

Why a Book on Contestation? This book's theory of contestation is motivated by two recent
developments in the field of international relations theories. First, most constructivist and …

The introduction develops this special issue's main research question: under which
conditions are challenges to norms likely to decrease their robustness? The issue presents …

Hierarchy-centered approaches to IR promise to deliver what anarchy-centered approaches
have not: a framework for theorizing and empirically analyzing world politics as a global …

Dominant narratives-from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror-have often served
as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past …

In this chapter, students will learn about constructivist approaches to security. Constructivism
has become an increasingly prominent theoretical approach to International Relations since …

In this theory note, I address two new approaches in international relations theory gaining
adherents and producing insightful applications: practice theory and relationalism. Practice …

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-
Northeast's Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section's Best Book of the Year …