ABSTRACT
In any mapping exercise of the global contours of International Relations, a focus on the English-speaking countries of the world makes considerable sense: so much of the discipline of IR has evolved in the academy in English-speaking countries; so much of the research in IR is published in English; and so much of the debate about the discipline occurs in English. What Holsti (1985: ix) called an “Anglo-American core of ‘producers’” has dominated the discipline, creating an “intellectual condominium” (Holsti 1985: 103) or a hegemonic educational duopoly (Jarvis 2001: 274-275; see also Wæver 1998; Crawford and Jarvis 2001). And attached to the “core” have been “small appendages in other anglophone countries,” notably Australia and Canada (Holsti 1985: ix).
