ZIB Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

Since the Russian war in Ukraine and with the widespread presence of IR scholars in the media, complaints about the presumed „irrelevance“ of the discipline have been resolved. Yet the need for reflecting about IR‘s position as a scholarly...

How can peace and conflict research, security studies and social science research on Eastern Europe be better linked in order to satisfy the demands and complexity of the current global (in)security phenomena? How can these research areas be...

On the surface, the reference text deals with the critique of both strategic studies and so-called critical peace research. In its deeper structure, however, it is about a disciplinary reorientation favouring the peace and security research...

This article comments on the main article by Thomas Diez and Andreas Hasenclever in this special issue. I am making three arguments. First, in times of severe international crises – like Russia’s current war against Ukraine – theory debates in...

This article addresses the argument of the main article that science should explain and categorise, but not draw conclusions or take positions; and that researchers should place more emphasis on the justification of their research contributions in...

This essay presents a Ukrainian point of view on the ongoing public and scholarly discourse in Ukraine regarding Russia’s war of aggression against the country, while also responding to the German discourse. The essay presents the state of the...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has caught not only politics but also the discipline of International Relations (IR) off guard. The IR debate has been characterised either by inter-theoretical speechlessness or know-it-all attitudes....

This article first looks back at past German debates on the relationship between the theory and practice of international relations (IR). In a three-step process, it then critically examines the self-image of academia in the context of media work,...