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Navid Pourmokhtari

Navid Pourmokhtari teaches at Concordia University of Edmonton. 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, was published in 2021. His other recent publications have appeared in Third World QuarterlyInternational SociologyAgainst the CurrentJadaliyya, the Journal of Human TraffickingSociology of IslamLegal Pluralism and Critical Social AnalysisFoucault Studies, and the Journal of International Women’s Studies

Toward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studies

Toward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studies

This book argues that not only has the present international relations (IR) paradigm failed to preserve global peace in our time, it has also proved to be an obstacle in this regard, and for this reason a paradigm shift is urgently required. With a view to demonstrating the IR paradigm’s failure to secure global peace, moreover, a Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis is used here to flesh out an archaeology of what I call knowledge relations within IR studies.

Toward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studies

Toward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studies

This book argues that not only has the present international relations (IR) paradigm failed to preserve global peace in our time, it has also proved to be an obstacle in this regard, and for this reason a paradigm shift is urgently required. With a view to demonstrating the IR paradigm’s failure to secure global peace, moreover, a Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis is used here to flesh out an archaeology of what I call knowledge relations within IR studies.