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For decades, international relations conferences have not been global; the reasons for this situation are diagnosed, including domination, disciplinary power, & hegemony at one level, & diversity, cosmopolitanism, & parochialism at another. However, the US international relations community, a scholarly great power, does have a strong cosmopolitan dimension. Six cures for the nonglobal reach of the discipline are discussed: dismantling the academic discipline, a high influx of funding, a systematic program to compare international relations communities, attention to the fuzzy border between international relations theory & civil society's political practice, acknowledging diversity in the discipline as an asset, & reconsidering the US & European international relations traditions. 45 References. M. Pflum

Introduction to the Roundtable from the Editors / 328 Cora Lacatus, Daniel Schade and Yuan "Joanne" Yao. - International Relations as a Social Science / 330 Iver B. Neumann. - IR as a Social Science: A Response / 351 Chris Brown. - 'Psychological Constructivism': Comment on Iver Neumann's 'International Relations as a Social Science' / 355 Jonathan Mercer. - Making Bodies Matter in IR / 359 Lauren Wilcox. - Response to the Roundtable / 365 Iver B. Neumann

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