Treading the Line: Navigating the Present and Future of IRPS
The world today is unsettled by wars, economic fragmentation, climate insecurities, and democratic backsliding that transcend regions and disciplines. These pressures are redefining both the role and meaning of international relations, reaching into the classrooms where it is taught, the newsrooms where it is reported, and the institutions where it is practiced.
Academia, the press, and international organisations today, face financial austerity and political pressure, that together, put in doubt whether the institutional scaffolding of IRPS is fit for purpouse.
If the liberal international order is faltering, and if the production, circulation, and enactment of knowledge are increasingly squeezed, then perhaps now is the moment to ask what alternatives can be imagined, and what it really means to “do IRPS” today.
This Roundtable aims to interrogate the changing role and meanings of IR by engaging with the scholars, journalists, and practitioners who perform ‘IR’ in their everyday domains.
Speakers
- Suerie Moon: Co-Director of the Global Health Centre and Professor of Practice in the Interdisciplinary Programmes and in International Relations and Political Science at the Geneva Graduate Institute
- Janine Bressmer: Alumna (class of ‘23) and Impact Editor at The New Humanitarian
- Helena de Jong: Policy Analyst in Climate Resilience, Peace, and Security at the Climate Action Division of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)