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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
Women in International Relations
By Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney 
Women now receive political science degrees in record numbers, but female representation among political science faculty still lags behind that of many other disciplines. Women may be underrepresented in the profession and trail their male colleagues because they see the world differently; they may see the world differently because of their minority status within the discipline; or the causal arrow may run in both directions. Many feminist scholars contend that gender subordination explains significant differences in worldview between men and women. Other scholars suggest that female political scientists adopt methods and choose topics that are not considered to be the best or most rigorous types of research by the editors of leading journals in order to differentiate themselves. This article examines the role that female scholars play in the discipline of international relations, using the 2006 TRIP survey to follow trends unique to female academics in the United States. Download
Divided Discipline? Comparing Views of US and Canadian IR Scholars
By Michael Lipson, Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney 
How does international relations teaching and scholarship differ across countries? This article reports results from the TRIP survey of international relations faculty at US and Canadian universities conducted in 2006. The article compares trends in the content and methods of college instructors at four year universities as well as their individual research and outlook on foreign policy. Some interesting differences emerge in this portrait of two IR communities. Canadian IR, for instance, appears to be both more internationally born and educated than US IR, as well as more politically liberal, while US professors devote more time to traditional paradigmatic debates. Course content, however, remains remarkably similar. Learn more about the way teaching and research differs between the US and Canada in this groundbreaking international study. Download
All TRIP Publications
Full Report: 2008/2009 Survey on Teaching, Research, and Policy. Richard Jordan, Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael Tierney. Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations at The College of William and Mary, 2009.
"The American School of IPE." Daniel Maliniak and Michael J. Tierney. Review of International Political Economy, February 2009.
"Women in International Relations." Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney. Politics and Gender 4(1), 2008.
"Divided Discipline? Comparing Views of US and Canadian IR Scholars." Michael Lipson, Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney. International Journal 62(2), 2007.
"The International Relations Discipline, 1980-2006." Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney. Presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Chicago, September 2007.
"Inside the Ivory Tower II." Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney. Foreign Policy March/April 2007.
Full Report: 2006/2007 Survey on Teaching, Research, and Policy. Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney. Program on the Theory and Practice of International Relations, 2007.
"Inside the Ivory Tower". Susan Peterson, Michael J. Tierney, and Daniel Maliniak. Foreign Policy, 2005.
Full Report: 2004/2005 Survey on Teaching, Research, and Policy. Susan Peterson and Michael J. Tierney with Daniel Maliniak. The College of William and Mary, 2005.
"Teaching and Research in International Politics: Surveying Trends in Faculty Opinion and Publishing." James D. Long, Daniel Maliniak, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney. Prepared for the International Studies Association annual meeting in Honolulu, March 2005.