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Wendt and Waltz rank second and third after Robert Keohane in the most recent ‘TRIP’ survey (Jordan et al., 2009: 43) conducted among IR academics in ten, mostly ‘Western’, countries. IR scholars were asked to ‘list four scholars whose work has had the greatest influence on the field of IR in the past 20 years’. With the possible exception of James Rosenau (ranked nineteenth), none of the 24 scholars ranked had established his or her profile in the field of FPA.
Even if one applies different measures, the four journals mentioned usually rank among the top ten journals of all political science journals (see Giles and Garand 2007). See also Jordan et al., 2009: 49 listing International Organization with an overall rank of first, before International Security (2), World Politics (4) and the European Journal of International Relations (8). IR scholars were asked to ‘list the four journals in IR that publish articles with the greatest influence on the way IR scholars think about international relations’.
For an exemplary case of theorizing German foreign policy, see Wæver 1996.
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Hellmann, G. Introduction by guest editor: IR/foreign policy theory and German foreign policy. J Int Relat Dev 12, 251–256 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2009.14
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