International Relations Scholars in Germany
Young, Internationalised, and Non-Paradigmatic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6262846 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Thomas Risse (0000-0002-4155-7230) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-112 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4008 • E-ISSN: 1743-8993 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644008.2016.1253683 |
| OpenAlex | W2553805411 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article describes the German International Relations (IR) community and their research and writing preferences based on data from the 2014 Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) faculty survey. Germany has a relatively young IR community with a relatively large share of women, however, this changes once scholars reach tenured professorships. We found that German IR scholars are, on average, more oriented towards IR theory and the study of international organisation(s) than other national IR communities. The overall picture is one of paradigmatic as well as theoretical pluralism and a rejection of ontological warfare, despite there being more IR scholars in Germany than anywhere else in the world self-identifying as social constructivists. Their methodological orientations are overwhelmingly qualitative – again above average as compared to other IR communities in the world. At the same time, German respondents identified methodology and epistemology as two of the main factors causing division among IR scholars today. Moreover, German IR scholars are almost completely internationalised with a strong leaning toward the Anglo-American core of the discipline. Various 'beauty contests' reveal a still vividly accurate image of IR as an 'American social science
Beauty · Epistemology · German · International relations · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |