Evaluating Progress in International Relations

Annette Freyberg-Inan is a lecturer and member of the research program Political Economy and Transnational Governance at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Among her many publications are the monograph What Moves Man: The Realist Theory of International Relations and Its Judgment of Human Nature (2004) and the edited volume Human Beings in IR Theory (2015). She is co-editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development, a former Vice President of the International Studies Association and the Vice Chair of its Theory Section. Ewan Harrison is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Rutgers University, USA. He is author of The Post-Cold War International System: Strategies, Institutions and Reflexivity (2004), co-author of The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West (2014). He has published in Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, International Affairs and International Politics. Patrick James is Dornsife Dean's Professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, USA. James is the author or editor of 23 books. He served previously as president of the International Council for Canadian Studies, Vice President of the International Studies Association and editor of International Studies Quarterly.