ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the favoured publication formats and targets audiences privileged by Indian and Brazilian scholars. It engages in a double international/inter-generational comparison of the relationship of International Relations (IR) with the Indian and Brazilian states and governments and explains how this relationship affects the professional illusio of IR scholars and their relationship to international publication. In both countries, reaching the target audiences is the prime goal that influences scholars' preferred publication formats. While Indian scholars mainly aim to reach a national academic and non-academic audience, Brazilian scholars target a national and international academic audience. The chapter discusses how the generational shift as a starting point used for understanding the shift of publication practices that happened in IR in Brazil but not in India. It aims to denaturalise the assumption of the universal value of international publication in IR by showing how IR publishing habits and objectives have been constructed in a diverse manner around the world.
