An international relations discipline for tempestuous times

In the face of tremendous violence and multiple crises, we are reminded that ours should not only be a discipline that examines crises, but also one that actively contributes to their resolution.What does IR as a discipline owe-or what must we give-to the pressing concerns of our times?What do we, in IR, owe to each other as a scholarly community or professional class?This essay argues for a reinterrogation of our discipline's relationship with 'crisis' as subject matter, method and motivation.It also makes a case for paying greater attention to our obligations to society and to one another as public intellectuals in need of collective methods to think across political and disciplinary divides.