International Relations Theories

• 1: Steve Smith: Introduction: Diversity and Disciplinarity in International Relations Theory


• 2: Amitav Acharya: Global International Relations


• 3: Milja Kurki and Colin Wight: International Relations and Social Science


• 4: Michael C. Williams: Classical Realism


• 5: John J. Mearsheimer: Structural Realism


• 6: Knud Erik Jørgensen: Liberalism


• 7: Jennifer Sterling-Folker: Neoliberalism


• 8: Tim Dunne: The English School


• 9: Alexander Anievas: Marxism


• 10: Katarina Kuši¿: Critical Theories


• 11: K. M. Fierke: Constructivism


• 12: Laura Sjoberg: Feminism


• 13: David Campbell and Roland Bleiker: Poststructuralism


• 14: Shampa Biswas: Postcolonialism


• 15: Toni Erskine: Normative International Relations Theory


• 16: Robyn Eckersley and Olaf Corry: International Relations, the Environment, and Green Theory


• 17: Colin Hay: International Relations Theory and Globalization


• 18: Ole Waever: Still a Discipline After All These Debates?

Professor Tim Dunne is Provost & Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey. Prior to his move to Surrey, Tim had a number of leadership roles at The University of Queensland (UQ), including Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for R2P and Executive Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is recognised for his research on human rights protection and foreign policy-making in a changing world order. He has written and co-edited fourteen books, including Terror in our Time (2012), The Globalization of International Society (2017), and a new revised edition of Diplomatic Investigations: Essays on the Theory of International Politics, edited by Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (2019) The Rise of the International (2023 in press. Tim is an elected Fellow of the Academic of Social Sciences, Australia; the Queensland Academic of Arts and Sciences; and holds an Emeritus Professorship at The University of Queensland.

Professor Milja Kurki is E.H. Carr Chair in International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Her areas of interest are international relations theory, philosophy of science, democracy and democracy promotion, critical theory and more recently scientific cosmology, social-natural science nexus and multispecies politics. Her PhD was focused on the analysis of the meaning of causality in IR scholarship. She then led a major ERC project on the conceptual foundations of democracy promotion practices between 2008 and 2012, a project which involved extensive policy engagement.


Dr Katarina Kuši¿ is a Marie-Sk¿odowska Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include statebuilding and peacebuilding interventions, land politics, interpretive and fieldwork-based methodologies, and post-colonial and decolonial thought. Her current work explores international political ecologies of land and human-nature relations more broadly. Her PhD and the ensuing monograph provided a conceptual critique of intervention