Description
While many areas of IR have sought to address the wider world, these attempted conversations have often been asymmetrical, reflecting the context and social relations from which they emerge. However, the way that asymmetry is structured, whether in terms of policy relevance or cultural implications, has changed over time with clear consequences for the way that scholars understand what they do. This panel addresses these questions with a broad focus on how different disciplinary frontiers have come to interact with, and be shaped by, a range of factors including new technologies and sciences, the globalisation of the discipline and the social needs that IR has sought to respond to. It further asks how, and whether, the discipline can be said to have a core or unique set of social - scientific values, and how these are best actualised given the asymmetries addressed
