Thread by @BridgetCoggins

ATTENTION @APSAtweets MEMBERS: We write to seek your support for our proposal to create an APSA Section on IR Theory. Although IR Theory is a core field of study within IR, the theoretical study of international relations does not have a dedicated home within the APSA. 1/6

Our purposes include:

Creating an institutional home for a diverse, growing, and important group of scholars, not only within but also beyond the United States, where many scholars of international relations and world politics are theorists.

Establishing a forum for studying issues already central in IR, such as international order, climate change, rising powers, and cross-cutting issues of political economy and security, as well as many of the issues identified by the...

APSR editors as requiring urgent attention by scholars in our discipline—including power, domination, ideology, inequality, political violence, race, gender, and normative questions—all of which entail thinking about IR in theoretical terms.

Sponsoring panels at the APSA meetings. Some could be co-sponsored with other sections such as Int'l Security; Int'l History & Politics; Foreign Policy; Conflict Processes; Int'l Collaboration; Human Rights; Political Psychology; Formal Theory; and Foundations of Political Theory

Encouraging the mentorship of graduate students, early career researchers, & scholars from under-represented groups engaged in IR Theory.

Publicizing and recognizing research in IR theory through article & book awards, and possibly including association with a scholarly journal

Sign the Petition: Please indicate your support for the formation of an IR Theory Section by going to this link & adding your signature. We need at least 200 APSA member signatures to qualify as a new section.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

That was more than /6! But thank you and feel free to circulate to those who might be interested!

Bridget (on behalf of the much larger organizing committee)

Jeff Colgan (Brown University)
Alexandre Debs (Yale University)
Stacie Goddard (Wellesley College)
Helen M. Kinsella (University of MN, Twin Cities)
Jennifer Mitzen &
Inés Valdez(Ohio State University)
Nuno P. Monteiro (Yale University)
Sebastian Rosato (University of Notre Dame