Fearon??? Are you nuts?
Care to elaborate?
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. . .
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,
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.
For the complete report on the survey (rather than the very condensed FP version) see http://mjtier.people.wm.edu/
intl...urveyreport.pdf
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: 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
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.
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