Departments strong in these specific subfields?

[ajc015]

Coercion, influence, resource politics, international security, american foreign policy.

Ideally, I'd like to find a department that is strong in a handful of these broad topics, and turns out graduates that find work both in traditional research positions and liberal arts education.

Anyone able to offer insight?

[wtncffts]

Well, none of those are 'subfields' in the traditional sense, though the latter three are certainly bonafide topics within IR. I'm not sure what you mean by the first two, unless there's some technical definition I'm not privy to. Those seem much more like conceptual apparati rather than substantive areas of study, outside of political philosophy, perhaps, wherein analysing the concept of 'coercion' itself is probably a very feasible project.

EDIT: What I'd suggest to start, though, is looking up the authors of articles that piqued your interest in these areas, and go from there.

Edited August 12, 2011 by wtncffts