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Our Work May Not Be International Relations

Jul 2026 · Millennium: Journal of International Studies · Vol 54, pp. 441 - 450 · 1 citation · 18 references

Abstract

This intervention reflects a keynote given before the Millennium: Journal of International Studies symposium on 3 November 2025 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It details a personal consideration of the problem of gatekeeping in International Relations (IR) and the accountabilities of IR scholars during the current crises of our time. Still premised on an experience of scholastic rejection, this commentary is intended to serve as an entryway for speaking to structural patterns and systemic challenges first anticipated in a previous publication issued in 2022 with Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. Here, the author explores the possibilities that marginal forms of political practice and identity hold under increasingly global conditions, and what these mean for the question of whether academics should push towards a post-IR discipline. They press for deeper considerations of reflexivity, what it means to have power, and what it means to have the responsibilities to repair as IR moves forward in the 21st century.

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