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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21st May 2012
Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power
Robert Ayson - New book in our series
Hedley Bull (1932-1985) was one of the most forceful thinkers of international politics in recent generations. His depictions of an international society where nation-states find order without a wo...read full article
The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance
Stefano Guzzini and Iver B. Neumann - New book in our series
The study of global governance has often led separate lives within the respective camps of International Political Economy and Foucauldian Studies.
Despite vast differences i...read full article
The Concept of the Political
Hans J. Morgenthau - New book in our series
Published in English for the first time, this careful translation of Hans J. Morgenthau's 1933 French monograph La Notion du 'Politique' brings this important early work of the 'founding father' of...read full article
Summer School 2012
World Society & Energy Transition
Energy transition is a topic that cannot be discussed in isolation. Neither from other international and national concerns, nor from economic, ecological, societal and military-political develo...read full article
Tragedy and International Relations
Toni Erskine and Richard Ned Lebow - New book in our series
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
A Whole New World - Reinventing International Studies for the Post-Western World
Pierre P. Lizee - New book in our series
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
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