ABSTRACT

Systemism, a visual approach to mapping existing International Relations scholarship, aspires to distill complex and seemingly divergent research streams, across long-siloed areas of scholarship, into more digestible form. The goal of the systemist framework is to make the field’s vast sub-fields more accessible, in the hope of bridging the gap between approaches and research agendas, possibly promoting previously unconsidered collaborations. This essay considers the application of systemism to five studies, and identifies some possible strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) posed by the application of this approach. Ultimately, this review essay suggests that possibly the greatest opportunity that systemism offers to IR (and the more specialized study of Canadian foreign policy) may lie in making the field’s scholarship more accessible for practitioners and students.

摘要

系统主义是一种映射现有国际关系奖学金的视觉方法，它渴望将复杂且看似不同的研究流，跨越长期孤立的学术领域，提炼成更易于理解的形式。系统主义框架的目标是使该领域的广阔子领域更易于访问，希望弥合方法和研究议程之间的差距，可能促进以前未考虑的合作。本文考虑了系统主义在五项研究中的应用，并确定了应用这种方法可能带来的一些优势、劣势、机会和威胁 (SWOT)。最终，