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This issue aims to highlight the importance of relationality in international studies and its implications for understanding global dynamics.

June 4, 2026Open Access

Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue

Key Points

This issue aims to highlight the importance of relationality in international studies and its implications for understanding global dynamics.
Compilation of contributions from the 2024 International Studies Association Annual Meeting.
Four distinct forums addressing various aspects of relationality.
Engagement of diverse scholarly communities and networks.
Introduction of new perspectives on relationality within international studies.
Contributions emphasize challenges to existing power structures in International Relations.
Inclusion of multiple scholarly voices to enrich the discourse.

Abstract

Abstract This Presidential Special Issue brings together diverse communities and networks of scholars recentring relationality in international studies. Drawing together contributions from the 2024 International Studies Association Annual Meeting, the four forums in this collection explore the plural relationalities that challenge the violent universalisms and hierarchies of International Relations.

Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue

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