ABSTRACT
The Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, established in 1927, was a case in point. The centres clearly made a contribution of great importance to the subject world-wide in the fields of international political economy, conflict studies, strategic studies, international history, international law, and the conceptualised study of geographical regions, particularly in the developing world. The construction of the global base is enriching International Relations as a discipline and arguably making it, for the first time ever, truly plural. States which were democratic and nations which became states were deemed likely to be of the liberal internationalist way of thinking. Many obstacles within the academic practice remain, starting with the Western-centrism of academic journals and their problematic gatekeeping.
