The topic of gender has been often discredited as “blind spot” in international relations (IR). When examining the behavior of states, their interactions and how international actors pursue their interests, gender is given as a titular label. Although the consequence of this omission is observable in the IR discipline, over the years, gender and its representation has become an important theme when tackling how either state or non-state actors behave within the international system. The “gendering” of academic disciplines warranted the emergence of other academic disciplines like cultural, developmental and women’s studies. As a function of this, gender became a crucial explanatory framework within other IR sub-fields like international security as well as foreign policy. Against this background, this seminar will take stock of gender in IR studies in terms of its theories, mechanisms and how gender intertwines with different sub-topics within this field. It will investigate how the main IR theories interpret gender and what type of discussions they entail. The seminar will also take stock of the diverse forms of gender representation which frequently oscillate between the descriptive, substantive, and active. Similarly, this seminar will include feminist perspective and critiques which made an essential contribution to the IR field and its development. Finally, the seminar will examine the normative (re)vision of gender when taken in the context of other IR-related fields such as international security, peace and conflict studies and the development of international organizations (IOs).