Exoticism, Erasure, and Complex Peripherality: Ukrainian IR in Global Disciplinary Space
Journal: Przegląd Politologiczny
Year: 2025

Despite Ukraine’s heightened salience since 2022, its International Relations (IR) discipline remains largely absent from debates on “national IR.” This article asks why Ukrainian IR attracts so little attention and argues that self-reflexive IR structures visibility around the benchmark of cultural-civilizational exoticity, i.e., a criterion that marginalizes the Ukrainian case. To address the latter issue, the article develops the concept of “complex peripherality,” offering a more fine-graine