International Relations in France

Why is the French International Relations (IR) discipline different from the transnational-American discipline? By analysing argument structures in research articles across time and from both sides of the Atlantic, this book shows how the discipline in France is caught between the American character of the discipline and the French state as regulator of legitimate forms of expression. Concretely, French research arguments are less explicit about what their propositions are and what academic discussions they draw on and add to than their transnational-American counterparts.

Based on a comparative case study of French and American IR research from 1950 to 2011, the book is a major contribution to the meta-IR ...