Since IR is now importing concepts and theories wholesale, not least in the form of the many recent ‘turns’93 it is worth considering how IR might best engage other knowledges while keeping hold of specifically international analytics. Such engagement requires the tools and clarity to export international perspectives from IR to other disciplines and interdisciplinary settings, but also potentially involves the internationalisation of theories and concepts imported from bodies of knowledge otherwise poorly attuned to that dimension of the social world. Without a positive notion of what the international is, both those are likely to be difficult.