Academic disciplines have planet-like qualities to them. Like planets in a galaxy they revolve around pathways that engender routine and sometimes predictable outcomes. These are made possible by domesticated modes of academic analyses, knowledge construction, production and “truth” verification. Academic disciplines also privilege topics, questions and frames by which to ascertain what is worthy of intellectual inquiry. In sum, they are bounded by worldviews, theories and epistemic structures into which current and future generations of students are socialized. Overtime, academic disciplines become fossilized or insulated to maintain a distinct interest and purpose. That is, they become fiercely defensive sub-systems that seek to blunt criticism or sometimes absorb challenges into its logic. In this paper, I argue that International Relations Theory (IRT), and more specifically realist/ neo-realist perspectives are deeply implicated in the violence and injustice that permeate relations between countries, communities, peoples, cultures, and religions of the world. And, its sub-discipline, International Political Economy (IPE) has similarly contributed to a process of “globalization” that favors the rich and like realist theory uses war and violence to maintain itself. Together, they have constructed a global political economy that is deeply colonial and predicated on age, a youth-driven culture, class, gendered and racialized hierarchies and disparities.