New book by Sam Hirst

Oxford University Press has published Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939, a monograph by Asst. Prof. Sam Hirst of the Department of International Relations. Drawing on extensive archival research conducted in multiple countries, the book presents a novel interpretation of international relations in the interwar period. Whilst the Kemalists’…

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Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR

Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Pınar Bilgin & Karen Smith This book asks what it means to think globally about world politics. In an attempt to contextualise the recent ‘globalising ‘turn’ in International Relations (IR), the book takes stock of 30 plus years of efforts at addressing IR’s Eurocentric…

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Recent Publication by Serdar Güner

Assoc. Prof. Serdar Güner of the Department of International Relations recently published “Art and IR Theory: Visual Semiotic Games” with Springer Press, Mathematics in Mind Series. The book presents a game theoretic analysis of communication among IR theorists. It uses visual semiotics and structural abstract paintings of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock as fields of…

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