The Unequal Profession

During the past 20 years distinct strands of critical thinking in International Relations (IR) have emerged on the ‘misfit’ between key themes, concepts, and categories in the field, and the ways in which the ‘interna-tional’ is experienced in distinct countries outside the North; the problematic domi-nance of Western and ‘American’ IR; and the differences and similarities inherent in the field as practiced around the globe. A shared concern with the invisibility and mar-ginality of the non-core,1 and with the dis-tinct forms of inequality that characterize IR has been at the root of much, if not all, of this literature