Brent J. Steele discusses current research and debates in International Relations, highlighting three key areas: innovation within ontological security studies (OSS), work on 'creating' and 'making' in IR including art as resistance, and the Women in the History of International Thought (WHIT) project. Steele notes a shift in his own thinking, now valuing order and routine for resistance after observing disruptions in US politics and foreign policy, and gaining sympathy for restraint, including the Just War Tradition.
As co-Editor in Chief of Global Studies Quarterly, he emphasizes efforts to increase representation from the Global South, with current editorial board, submission, and publication rates from the region around 20%. Steele also reflects on the difficulty of identifying a "definitive failure" to influence future generations of diplomats due to fragmented social media and AI proliferation, contrasting with past formative experiences like the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He advocates for greater utilization of historical approaches in IR research and teaching, having returned to it himself, finding historical cases useful for tracing arguments and making concepts "alive" for students.
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