Randall Schweller, Maxwell’s Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) The end of traditional IR theory does not mean that IR scholars ...

Editor’s Note: WOTR is proud to feature this guest contribution by Stephen M. Saideman. Please read our submissions policy here. The principal-agent problem is difficult in international relations ...

With Russia’s economy sagging, support for the government falling, and even President Vladimir Putin’s sky-high approval ratings beginning to come down to earth, there has been no shortage of ...

International Relations (IR) theory seeks to explain the behaviour of states and non-state actors within a complex global system. Classical and neorealist approaches emphasise power dynamics, the ...

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 ...