THE FORUM Sites of Knowledge (Re-)Production: Toward an Institutional Sociology of International Relations Scholarship F E ´ LIX G RENIER Universite ´ De Moncton AND J ONAS HAGMANN ETH Zu ¨rich In his 1998 article, The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline, Ole Wæver suggested to assess the development and organization of the International Relations (IR) discipline through a three-tier comparative sociological research framework. It is by looking at the intellectual, insti- tutional, and political layer of IR, so he argued, that one can fully under- stand the specificities of IR as a complex social field of work as well as the particular forms of knowledge that are developed in this field. In the years following its publication, Wæver’s article was joined and followed up by a growing and increasingly sophisticated body of literature study- ing IR scholarship. Yet, a thorough reading of this literature shows that the emerging sociology of IR has come to focus strongly on only two of Wæver’s three analytical layers: It is the intellectual and political layers of IR that garnered significant attention thus far, whereas work about the field s institutional layer remains surprisingly scarce. This forum seeks to address this gap by means of promoting a dedicated engagement with the field’s institutional determinants: How is the institutional layer of IR organized in different places? How is the discipline embedded in distinct sites? And how is it governed by material and immaterial institutional constraints? To answer these questions, the forum s six individual contri- butions focus on conventional university departments and hybrid sites of international relations alike. In doing so, the forum s ambitions are both to highlight the empirical diversity of sites and settings where specialized knowledge about international relations is produced, shaped, and re- instantiated, and to illustrate how a focus on the institutional layer of IR can become an important vector for opening up the literature to insights from related fields of study. Keywords: sociology of IR, institutional sociology, IR education With his 1998 article, The Sociology of a Not So International Discipline, Ole Wæver launched a comprehensive research agenda on the sociology of International Relations (IR). In his widely read article, Wæver proposed to assess and explain the development and organization of IR through a three-tier comparative Grenier, Fe ´lix and Jonas Hagmann (2016) Sites of Knowledge (Re-)Production: Toward an Institutional Sociology of International Relations Scholarship. International Studies Review, doi: 10.1093/isr/viw006 V C The Author (2016). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com International Studies Review (2016) 00, 1–33 International Studies Review Advance Access published May 11, 2016