| ID | 156227 |
| Title Proper | Keeping up with the times |
| Other Title Information | how the discipline of international relations responds to benchmark events |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ribar, Matthew K |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines how the discipline of international relations (IR) engages with the policy process by investigating the discipline’s responsiveness to world events. To this end, the article deploys a mixed-methods approach using historical data of journal articles in twelve top IR journals covering 1980 to 2012 from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project as well as a series of interviews with scholars to show how four major world events, or benchmark events, influence the discipline of international relations. The paper finds that benchmark events do cause a shift in the subject areas in which IR scholars publish, as well as a shift in the popularity of theoretical approaches in which scholars ground their research. Benchmark events do not, however, cause a significant shift in where in the world IR scholars study. A series of elite interviews with IR professors is used to elaborate a causal mechanism for these correlations. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Studies Perspectives Vol. 18, No.3; Aug 2017: p.304–322 |
| Journal Source | International Studies Perspectives 2017-09 18, 3 |
| Key Words | International Relations Theory ; Policy Relevance ; Policy–Academia Gap |