This book asks why the current IR paradigm has outlasted its utility and argues that despite changes to world politics, the paradigm of IR remains far more preoccupied with the dynamics of war and almost silent, when it comes to commenting on the conditions of lasting, global peace. Cognizant of the dominant paradigm's supposed preoccupation with seeking peace, the author shows how IR's mainstream discourses work to reproduce war.

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Navid Pourmokhtari is Assistant Professor of Governance, Law, and Management at Athabasca University. His teaching and research interests lie in gender and global governance, social movements and revolutions, and international peace and security. Pourmokhtari is also the author of Iran's Green Movement: Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation, and Social Mobilization. His other publications have appeared in Third World Quarterly, International Sociology, Against the Current, Jadaliyya, the Journal of Human Trafficking, Sociology of Islam, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, Foucault Studies, and the Journal of International Women's Studies.

Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada Navid Pourmokhtari