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Rory's avatar

Maybe something like “IR Underground” or “Guerrilla IR” ??

As an aside, your bullet points really spoke to my soul. I was wrapping up a PhD application for an IR program but decided to abandon it due to the, let’s say, less than positive prospects for the field.

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Un-Diplomatic's avatar

I like IR Underground! Oh wow, yeah, we have precisely people in your situation in mind--basically a generation who, in any other era, would study IR but for too many reasons find it unrealistic or tainted or uneconomical

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Rory's avatar
3dEdited

Yeah…we’re actually the same generation. I won’t get into it here, but this was going to be my 2nd career plan. Now I have to find a real job.

But I know that if I would have gone straight into it I would’ve been just another cog keeping the establishment running.

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Michael A.'s avatar

"Alternational Relations"

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Un-Diplomatic's avatar

Oh man, that’s fucking good--we might need to set up a second poll with some of the comment suggestions

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ElandPrincess's avatar

IR After Dark - cause most of us will be tuning in after working for the Man.😅

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John phillips's avatar

Taming the Leviathan?

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ElandPrincess's avatar

If we're taking title suggestions then, "International Entanglements" or "5D Chess for Dummies".

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Catherine Dill's avatar

Looking forward to this initiative! I’m at a point in my career where I could use a refresher (or entry even for more left principles), especially as I think about my own place in the field.

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Un-Diplomatic's avatar

Thanks, and many such cases (I think)!

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Charles Knight's avatar

IR beyond the nation state

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Charles Knight's avatar

Not sure the world is ready for that… but, I’m fed up with nationalism and the nation state.

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Charles Knight's avatar

And tired of reading IR practitioners who serve to develop elaborate rationales for terrible nation state behaviors.

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John Seal's avatar

I was going to suggest 'Entente Discordant', but voted for IR After Dark

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Harry Williams's avatar

Why not "The Grand Chessboard"? Oh.

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