Global Pathways is a collaboration of scholars from the sociology of science, bibliometrics, and International Relations (IR). We contribute to the sociology of science by mapping the global diffusion of knowledge in this field of the social sciences, while simultaneously adding empirical evidence to recent debates about "global IR".

In particular, we ask two interrelated sets of questions:

1. How are scientific communities in IR structured, and how is this structure maintained?
2. How does this structure affect the diffusion of knowledge within IR? What are the mechanisms and what are the effects?

Project publications

• Risse, Thomas/ Mathis Lohaus/ Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar/ Jochen Gläser/ Frank Havemann: "Overlapping International Relations Communities and the Diffusion of Knowledge." Manuscript in preparation.
• Risse, Thomas/ Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar/ Frank Havemann (2022): "IR Theory and the Core–Periphery Structure of Global IR: Lessons from Citation Analysis." International Studies Review 24(3), viac029.
• Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Wiebke/ Peter M. Kristensen/ Mathis Lohaus (2022): "The Global Division of Labor in a Not So Global Discipline." All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace 11(1), 3–27.
• Lohaus, Mathis/ Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar/ Olivia Ding (2021): "Bifurcated core, diverse scholarship: IR research in seventeen journals around the world." Global Studies Quarterly 1(4), ksab033.
  
• Havemann, Frank (2021): "Topics as clusters of citation links to highly cited sources. The case of research on international relations." Quantitative Science Studies 2(1), 204–223.
• Lohaus, Mathis/ Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar (2021): "Who publishes where? Exploring the geographic diversity of global IR journals." International Studies Review 23(3), 645–669.
• Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Wiebke/ Ingo Peters/ Laura Kemmer/ Alina Kleinn/ Luisa Linke-Behrens/ Sabine Mokry (2020): “The global IR debate in the classroom”, In: Arlene B. Tickner und Karen Smith (eds.): International relations from the Global South. Worlds of difference. Abingdon Oxon, New York NY: Routledge, 17–37.
• Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Wiebke/ Thomas Risse (2018): "International Relations Scholars in Germany: Young, Internationalised, and Non-Paradigmatic." German Politics 27(1): 89-112.
• Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Wiebke (2018): “Diversity and Dominance in International Relations Scholarship.” Refubium – Freie Universität Repository (doctoral dissertation).
• Wemheuer-Vogelaar, Wiebke/ Nicholas J. Bell/ Mariana Navarrete Morales/ Michael J. Tierney (2016): “The IR of the Beholder. Examining Global IR Using the 2014 TRIP Survey.” International Studies Review 18 (1): 16–32.
• Peters, Ingo/ Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar (eds.) (2016): Globalizing International Relations: Scholarship Amidst Divides and Diversity. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Risse, Thomas/ Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar (2016): "IB in Deutschland: jung, internationalisiert und eklektisch." Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 23(2), 144 – 172.

Background information

Interdisciplinary set-up

Global Pathways is a collaborative and international endeavor. The core team consists of Berlin-based researchers from different disciplines. In addition, we are grateful for support from the Teaching, Research, and International Policy Project (TRIP) at the College of William & Mary (USA). We also collaborate with Prof. Takahiro Yamada at Nagoya University (Japan). Last but not least, the project would not have been possible without the many brilliant student assistants that worked with us in Williamsburg, Nagoya, and here in Berlin.

History

Global Pathways started as a spin-off of the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) project at the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia). Between 2013 and 2017, the project focused on the advancement of student research in the study of global IR scholarship. During this early phase, large portions of our datasets on Chinese and Latin American IR were developed. During that time, the project received funding from the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations, the Roy R. Charles Center for Academic Excellence, and the Reves Center for International Studies (all located at the College of William and Mary).

In Spring 2017, "Global Pathways" moved its center of operations from Williamsburg to Berlin. With support of our current DFG grant and a collaboration with the Kolleg-Forschergruppe “The Transformative Power of Europe,” we have built a multi-years project (2016-2020) characterized by a larger geographical coverage and the application of a substantial theoretical framework rooted in IR and the sociology of science.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to our excellent research assistants and coders at Freie Universität Berlin, the College of William & Mary, and Kwansei Gakuin University: Nathassia Arrúa, Alessia Barbanti, Hannah Berk, Sebastian Breuer, Olivia Ding, Jack Galloway, Sydney Guo, Valentin Handrick, Gesche Hullmann, Sonia Li, Lixue Lin-Siedler, Felix Mattes, Yuna Miyoshi, Yusuke Nanase, Sarah Neugebauer, Mariana Paulino, Mingjie Peng, Jonas Richter, Saskia Röhle, and Arianna Talaie. This project would not have been possible without their contributions.

We are deeply grateful to the TRIP team for their advice, shared data, and continued support.