::''This article refers to the academic journal. For the discipline itself see

International Political Sociology (IPS) International Political Sociology (IPS) is an interdisciplinary field and set of approaches at the crossroads of international relations theory and other disciplines such as sociology, geography and anthropology. It is structured around initiatives ...

'' ''International Political Sociology'' is a

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. Its aim is to publish and disseminate world-leading research that critically explores the problems of the modern international. It welcomes analyses of local, global and international transformations that challenge statist understandings of our world, and encourages research that creatively re-works the constitutive dichotomies holding our world together (e.g. state and society, national and international, social and political). It also seeks to develop the already established connections between International Relations (IR), Politics and Sociology by fostering transdisciplinary collaborations between scholars in other disciplines who are critically interrogating the international sphere (e.g. Human Geographers, Anthropologists, and Political Theorists). Finally, it seeks to broaden the community that engages with international studies beyond the usual circuits of North American and European scholarship so as to better reflect the diverse populations constituting the global realm. It attempts to promote interaction between

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such as ...

scholars and disciplines such as

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

. Past

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have been

Didier Bigo Didier Bigo (born 31 August 1956) is a French academic from Lille and Professor of International Relations at King's College London and at Sciences Po, Paris. He has authored two books, ''Polices en réseaux. L'expérience européenne'' (1996) and ' ...

and R.B.J. Walker,

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and

João Pontes Nogueira João Pontes Nogueira is an academic at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He is an editor for the peer-reviewed English language academic journal, '' International Political Sociology''. He has many published journal articles ...

. Since 2017, the Editor-in-Chief is Debbie Lisle with Co-Editors Vicki Squire, Roxanne Doty and Alex Hall. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2016

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of 1.952, ranking it 37th out of 165 journals in the category "Political Science" and 23rd out of 143 in the category "Sociology".

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