Origins Influences Outcomes. Using histories on the role of the nineteenth century in creating world order the study of race and empire in the emergence of IR the place of womens writing and feminism in the early twentieth century origins of IR the rise and fall of political geography, and its links to a more materialist approach to IR and the crystallization of classical realist and English School communities in the 1940s and 1950s this book explores the wealth of work that has been done on the origins of IR over the last few years. It assesses and compares the different origin stories that have emerged out of recent