Toward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studies

This book asks why the current IR paradigm has outlasted its utility and argues that despite changes to world politics, the paradigm of IR remains far more preoccupied with the dynamics of war and almost silent, when it comes to commenting on the conditions of lasting, global peace. Cognizant of the dominant paradigms supposed preoccupation with seeking peace, the author shows how IR’s mainstream discourses work to reproduce war. Navid Pourmokhtari teaches at MacEwan University. His research interests lie in comparative politics and international relations studies with a focus on gender and feminism, social movements and revolutionary studies, and international peace and security studies. Pourmokhtari’s first book, entitled Iran’s Green Movement: Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation, and Social Mobilization, published in 2021. His other recent publications have appeared in Third World Quarterly, International Sociology, Against the Current, Jadaliyya, the Journal of Human Trafficking, Sociology of Islam, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, Foucault Studies, and the Journal of International Women’s Studies.