Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP)
Outcomes in international relations (IR) have changed dramatically over the past 25 years. The sudden and peaceful end of the Cold War, dramatic increases in interdependence, the diffusion of democracy, and the rise of non-state actors have all shaped outcomes and put new policy issues on the agenda.
Are students and scholars of IR equipped to assist policy makers as they confront this rapidly changing world? Conversely, does research and teaching in IR have any influence on the real world of international politics and policy making? Almost no systematic research has been done to document empirical patterns or verify causal hypotheses along these lines. The TRIP project seeks to remedy these shortcomings by creating new datasets and analyzing the relationships illustrated below. Read More »
In the Spotlight: TRIP
NEW! One Discipline or Many? 2008 TRIP Survey of International Relations Faculty in Ten Countries
By Richard 
Jordan, Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael Tierney
To what extent is there national variation in how scholars teach IR, think about the discipline,view their role in the policy process, and approach critical contemporary foreign policy debates? Conversely, to what extent is there a single-perhaps American-driven-IR discipline? To begin to answer these questions, the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project has conducted the first cross-national survey of IR faculty in ten countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States. This report provides descriptive statistics and top line results for all 90 questions asked on the 2008 survey. Download | Mark Lynch Blog | Daniel Drezner's Blog | Duck of Minerva Blog | Think Progress
Foreign Policy: Inside the Ivory Tower 2009
By Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael Tierney
To what extent is there national variation in how scholars teach IR, think about the discipline,view their role in the policy process, and approach critical contemporary foreign policy debates? Conversely, to what extent is there a single-perhaps American-driven-IR discipline? To begin to answer these questions, the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project has conducted the first cross-national survey of IR faculty in ten countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States. This report provides descriptive statistics and top line results for all 90 questions asked on the 2008 survey. Read More
The American School of IPE
By Daniel Maliniak and Michael J. Tierney
This paper uses the results of the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project: a multi-year study of the international relations (IR) field in order to discern the major characteristics of international political economy scholarship in the United States today. It finds that, like Benjamin Cohen’s depiction of the American school, IPE in the United States is increasingly positivist, quantitative, and liberal in orientation. It employs data from a journal article database that tracks trends in publication patterns. It also analyzes data from two surveys of IR scholars in the US and Canada that were conducted in the fall of 2006. Download
Foreign Policy: Inside the Ivory Tower 2007
By Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney
Professors of international relations shape future policy debates and mold the next generation of leaders. So who are these dons of diplomacy, and what do they believe? In the most comprehen- sive survey of its kind, we unlock the door to the academy, examining what these scholars write and think about international politics, and what they are teaching tomorrow’s leaders. The view from the academy allows scholars to reflect dispassionately on vexing foreign-policy problems, discern underlying patterns in state behavior, anticipate future threats, and forecast the consequences of different policy options. Read the Full Article |
2006 TRIP Survey Report: The View from the Ivory Tower
By Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney
In this report, we describe the results of the 2006 TRIP survey of IR faculty. In the fall of 2004 we conducted the most extensive and systematic survey to date of IR scholars in the United States. Two years later, in the fall of 2006, we followed up that survey to track changes in views and practices of IR scholars. The 2006 survey contained 36 new questions that were not included in the prior survey, and we expanded the geographic scope of our survey to include scholars at both U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. This report contains descriptive statistics for every question in the 2006... Full Survey Report