Fearon??? Are you nuts?
Anonymous | 11.18.05 - 6:21 pm | #

Care to elaborate?
bp32 | Homepage | 11.18.05 - 8:34 pm | #

I think the rankings are based on how many scholars put the school in their top 5. Therefore it's not surprising about MIT, since it's heavily security-oriented but without much on the IPE/institutions/constructivist/int'l law sides of things. It's definitely top 5 (or probably higher - Chicago, Columbia, and maybe Stanford would be its primary competition) for security though. . .
anon | 11.18.05 - 9:09 pm | #

The list of the top 20 is OK...but there aren't any women and I think there are some major oversights.

I'm guessing that in 10 years, many of these scholars will be on the list: Mike Barnett, Jeff Checkel, Marty Finnemore, David Held, Andrew Moravcsik, Thomas Risse, Kathryn Sikkink, and Anne-Marie Slaughter.
Rodger | Homepage | 11.18.05 - 11:46 pm | #

Rodger,

Yes, I was suprised by the lack of women, but the article does note that Finnemore and Sikkink were some of the few mentioned who would likely move up in a future survey. I would assume that list will grow over the next 10 years as well.
bp32 | Homepage | 11.19.05 - 7:15 am | #

For the complete report on the survey (rather than the very condensed FP version) see http://mjtier.people.wm.edu/ intl...urveyreport.pdf
AIJ | 11.19.05 - 3:44 pm | #

Of course this list is a good reflection of the sorry state of American IR. Would have been interesting to compare this with British, Canadian, Australian and continental European views.

If I had to choose one scholar who had the greatest influence on the development of IR theory in the past 20 years, then I would go for Steve Smith. Not so much because of his own writings, but because he was the door-opener for a variety of post-positivist approaches, such as constructivism, feminism, postmodernism etc.
UK | 11.28.05 - 11:15 am | #

UK: while I would agree that Steve Smith has certainly had a large impact on the field of IR over the past 20 years I am not sure why this list is a good reflection of the "sorry state" of IR--what is the basis of the comparison? By what criteria? J/C
Bill Petti | Homepage | 11.28.05 - 2:38 pm | #

Why is Fearon so highly rated?

What book that Fearon has written will still be read in 20, 30 or 50 years?

He might have a meteoric career, but I doubt he has had so far the same impact on the discipline.
duck | 02.16.06 - 1:01 pm | #