​Original, unpublished academic papers are cordially invited for presentation at the conference under, but not restricted to, the following topics:

• Silences in International Relations (IR)
• IR’s failure to come to terms with colonialism and its legacy.
• Global IR and pluralistic universalism
• Applying concepts and theories derived from non-Western contexts beyond their context of origin
• Challenging the ethnocentrism of Realism, Liberalism and Constructivism 
• Global IR and challenging cultural exceptionalism
• Global IR and an agent-oriented  narrative
• Middle East in a post-Western ‘Multiplex World’ Order