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  1. This idea of ‘main’ rather than ‘sole’ language is crucial since there is indeed an intellectual IR production in languages other than English in some of the aforementioned countries. For 2011–2012, the TRIP team decided for the first time to translate the survey in other languages, so it will be interesting to see the results of this translation exercise.

  2. For an excellent critical overview contrasting the uses of the term ‘practices’ in IR, see Büger and Gadinger (2007).

  3. I am referring here to IR works produced/published in French in Canada, not to IR scholars whose mother tongue is French.

  4. New exciting research on the state of Francophone IR literature in Canada focused on foreign policy might nuance these positions though. See Cornut and Roussel (2011a, 2011b).

  5. For a discussion on the (ir)relevance of postcolonial theory to the case of French-Canadians (and Québécois, more precisely), see notably Schwartzwald (2005) and Cardinal et al. (1999).

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D'Aoust, AM. Accounting for the politics of language in the sociology of IR. J Int Relat Dev 15, 120–131 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/jird.2011.30

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