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r/IRstudies

International Relations. IRStudies seeks to discuss and highlight the academic study of international relations. Keep it topical and informed. Founded 2010 · 75.1K members

75.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 25.6K upvotes, which works out to 339 per 1,000 members.

339peak upvotes per 1,000 members
75.8Kmembers
25.6Kbest post
2.9Kmost comments
394posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

69% 18% 9%
Link 69% Question 18% Text 9% Image 2% Video 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Ideas/Debate 78 IR Careers 5 Blog Post 4 Research 4 Discipline Related/Meta 2 Podcast 2 Historic defeat? 1 Winning? 1 Book Review 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

What are the actual ramifications of doing this?

↑ 25.6K 💬 2.9K image 2026

Hundreds of Ukrainians just died because Donald Trump decided to suspend the flow of U.S. intelligence

↑ 6.1K 💬 913 link 2025

US threw the euro under the bus - When the Federal Reserve sold euros to buy yen, they did not notify the European Central Bank. The ECB learned of i…

↑ 3.5K 💬 365 link 2026

How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran – Trump was deeply impressed by an Israeli presentation that portrayed regime change as easy, Iranian capabi…

↑ 3.4K 💬 277 link 2026

Overwhelming majority of Americans oppose US going to war to annex Greenland – Despite running a 2024 election campaign accusing Democrats of being w…

↑ 3K 💬 217 link 2026

Canada's PM Mark Carney outstanding Davos speech in full. This is what true global leadership looks like

↑ 2.9K 💬 510 video 2026

UAE royals secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars - In retur…

↑ 2.7K 💬 67 link 2026

By nearly every metric, the U.S. is losing the Iran war

↑ 2.4K 💬 424 link 2026

Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears

↑ 2.4K 💬 362 link 2025

The Economist: "On April 2nd, spurred on by his delusions, Donald Trump announced the biggest break in America’s trade policy in over a century—and c…

↑ 2.4K 💬 172 link 2025

Communities its size

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r/IRstudies, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/IRstudies?
r/IRstudies ("International Relations") describes itself this way: IRStudies seeks to discuss and highlight the academic study of international relations. Keep it topical and informed. It was founded in 2010 and has 75.1K members.
How many members does r/IRstudies have?
r/IRstudies has about 75.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 394 of its posts; the biggest reached 25.6K upvotes, which is 339 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/IRstudies?
"What are the actual ramifications of doing this?" reached 25.6K upvotes and 2.9K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/IRstudies.
What subreddits are similar to r/IRstudies?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/IRstudies?
Of the posts we hold, 69% are link posts and 18% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/IRstudies?
Across 394 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 23:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 07:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/IRstudies?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/IRstudies has 1.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 101 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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