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Geopolitics

The 20% Ceiling: Academic 'Inclusion' as a Neo-Colonial Mirage in International Relations

Professor Brent J. Steele highlights three exciting areas of innovation in International Relations scholarship: ontological security studies, creative and artistic resistance, and the revolutionary Women in the History of International Thought project. It is telling that even while noting progress, the persistent marginalization of the Global South within the 'international' academy, with only 20% representation, lays bare the enduring colonial structures of knowledge production that must be dismantled.