The Standing Group on International Relations is a European ECPR broad-based Standing Group where IR specialists from different sectors of activity - universities, independent research institutes and public administration are brought together to promote scholarly activities.
The main activities of the SGIR range from organising major conferences, summer schools and publishing books and journals and maintaining a website and mailing list.
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23rd March 2012
Tragedy and International Relations
Toni Erskine and Richard Ned Lebow
Tragedy is an ancient plot line associated with hubris, value conflicts among actors and the propensity of our considered actions to have consequences very different from those we intend. First app...read full article
The ECPR SGIR is searching for an institution to host the 8th Pan European Conference on International Relations
Timing:
September 2013
The location:
Previous conferences have been in places...read full article
A Whole New World - Reinventing International Studies for the Post-Western World
Pierre P. Lizee
To fully understand the non-Western world and its growing impact on global politics, International Studies as a discipline has to change. The assumption that it speaks to universal realities has le...read full article
International Studies
Pami Aalto, Vilho Harle and Sami Moisio
International studies is introduced in this book as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research. The authors take stock of the interdisciplinary origins of the study of intern...read full article
Making EU Foreign Policy
Daniel C. Thomas
As the European Union seeks to become a major player in world affairs, sceptics question the EU's ability to overcome differences in the outlooks and policy preferences of its member states. How th...read full article
EIRSS Summer School 2011 in Barcelona, Spain
International relations are fraught with ethical considerations. Traditional approaches to the study of International Relations, however, failed to acknowledge this reality and conceded ethics litt...read full article
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