最佳International Relations播客 (2024)

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Discussion with Jin Xue 39:19

7M ago39:19

39:19

This podcast episode features Jin Xue of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in conversation with Mona Fawaz and Yvonne Rydin about her article “A critical realist theory of ideology: Promoting planning as a vanguard of societal transformation”. This paper was nominated in 2023 by the journal Planning Theory for the AESOP Best Paper Prize. Se…

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Episode 4: Gabriel Silvestre and Guillermo Jajamovich, ‘The afterlives of urban megaprojects.’ 55:50

11M ago55:50

55:50

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Episode 33: Status? You Just Met Us! 1:15:07

1y ago1:15:07

1:15:07

[audio updated to fix a mixing error] The second installment of our live taping at the British International Studies Association annual convention in Glasgow is a "Whisky Optional" roundtable on status and international-relations theory. Our guests are: Ali Bilgic of Loughborough University, Michelle Murray of Bard College, Rohan Mukherjee of the L…

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Discussion with Bish Sanyal 41:03

1+ y ago41:03

41:03

A discussion with distinguished scholar and educator, Bish Sanyal from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this podcast, introduced by Yvonne Rydin, Mona Fawaz explores Bish's contribution to planning research and planning theory over the years.

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Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky 1:16:48

1+ y ago1:16:48

1:16:48

Robert Cox's landmark article, "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory," appeared in the journal Millennium in 1981. Among other things, it introduced the distinction between "critical" and "problem-solving" theory to international-relations scholars. But this isn't just any old episode where Patrick and Dan r…

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Episode 31: Great Balls of Power 1:56:58

1+ y ago1:56:58

1:56:58

Back in 2019, Uri Friedman wrote that we "find ourselves—as you will have heard in the corridors of power and conference rooms of think tanks, and read in the government’s strategy documents and the media’s coverage of international relations—in an era of “great-power competition." "As Friedman noted, "great-power competition" has even" achieved ha…

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Interview with Catherine Brinkley 31:51

1+ y ago31:51

31:51

In this episode of the Planning Theory podcast, Catherine Brinkley reflects on the special issue of the journal that she edited looking afresh at the concept of the 'commons' and discusses what the concept offers to planning theory today.

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El Estado y la Acumulación de Capital en México con Verónica Silva 44:04

1+ y ago44:04

44:04

Editora contribuyente del LAP Verónica Silva acompaña el podcast para conversar sobre su nuevo número para Marzo 2023: "El Estado y la Acumulación de Capital en México." Los temas discutido incluyen el proceso histórico del neoliberalismo y sus efectos en las políticas, la sociedad, y la económia de México. Además, conversamos sobre la presidencia …

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Brazil under Bolsonaro: Social, Political, and Economic Impacts in the Country and Latin America w/ James N. Green & Tulio Ferreira 1:01:39

1+ y ago1:01:39

1:01:39

LAP contributing editors James N. Green and Tulio Ferreira join the podcast to discuss the January 2023 LAP issue "Brazil Under Bolsonaro: Social, Political, and Economic Impacts in the Country and in Latin America." Topics covered include the causes, consequences, and tragedies of Jair Bolsonaro's presidency, the political history of the far-right…

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Episode 30: A Long, Strange Trek 1:25:55

1+ y ago1:25:55

1:25:55

It's our first "actual" installment of Whiskey & IR Theory in Space! We discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation's 'gay rights' episode, "The Outcast," which Dan uses to introduce his students to different modes of "reading" the politics of (and in) science fiction. PTJ and Dan summarize the episode (can you spoil an 30+ year-old TV show?), discuss t…

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Episode 29: Introducing: Whiskey & IR Theory... in Space! 50:50

1+ y ago50:50

50:50

Patrick and Dan talk about the newest feature of the podcast: a series in which they combine their long-running seminars on (international) politics and science fiction. In each episode of "Whiskey & IR Theory... in Space!" Patrick and Dan will discuss a book, television episode, or film that they've assigned in classes past. Here, though, they int…

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Episode 28: Are We Living in a Simulation... of Sovereignty? 2:38:47

2y ago2:38:47

2:38:47

PTJ and Dan discuss Cynthia Weber's 1994 book, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State and Symbolic Exchange. Weber examines "the justifications for intervention offered by the Concert of Europe, President Wilson's administration, and the Reagan-Bush administrations" and analyzes them via a combination of "critical international relations t…

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Interview with Thomas Buhler 34:00

2y ago34:00

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In this episode of the Planning Theory podcast, Yvonne Rydin and Mona Fawaz talk with Thomas Buhler, about this AESOP prize-winning paper on vagueness in plans. See: When vagueness is a strategic resource for planning actors

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Episode 27: Everything is Relational 1:57:24

2y ago1:57:24

1:57:24

It's a nostalgia episode for our two hosts, Patrick and Dan. They tackle Mustafa Emirbayer's 1997 article in the American Journal of Sociology, "Manifesto for a Relational Sociology." According to Emirbayer, "Sociologists today are faced with a fundamental dilemma: whether to conceive of the social world as consisting primarily in substances or pro…

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Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America 47:42

2y ago47:42

47:42

Alexander Scott speaks with anthropologist and LAP contributing editor Adrienne Pine to discuss her recent double issue of LAP titled Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America which was recently released in November of 2022. Topics covered include neoliberalism and the political-economic roots of violence and conflict in Central America, critic…

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Mariátegui, Critical Thinking, and Andean Futures 34:33

2y ago34:33

34:33

Alexander Scott speaks with renowned intellectual and LAP contributing editor Professor Ronaldo Munck to discuss the July 2022 issue of LAP. Topics covered include the ideas and life of twentieth-century Marxist intellectual José Carlos Mariátegui, the critical thinking of some contemporary South American intellectuals, and the relevance of theoriz…

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Episode 26: Anarchy vs. The Anarchy 1:31:57

2y ago1:31:57

1:31:57

The University of Chicago's Paul Poast claims that G. Lowes Dickinson was the OG "modern" theorist of international relations—and also an "offensive realists." John Mearsheimer invokes Dickinson in Tragedy of Great Power Politics, but notes that Dickinson vocally supported the creation of the League of Nations. Brian Schmidt pays close attention to…

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Episode 25: The New Hierarchy Studies 1:26:44

2+ y ago1:26:44

1:26:44

Scholars of international relations don't agree on much, but they at least agree that anarchy (the lack of a common authority to make and enforce rules) is the defining feature of international politics, right? Not exactly. There's a long history of research that emphasizes the hierarchical character of international relations. Now a new wave of sc…

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Interview with Jean Hillier 48:31

2+ y ago48:31

48:31

In this fourth episode of the Planning Theory podcast, Mona Fawaz and Yvonne Rydin talk with Jean Hillier, Professor Emerita in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne. Jean is well-known to Planning Theory readers as a frequent contributor of papers on collaborative planning, agonism, indigenous communities and more-than-human …

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Episode 24: International Relations in China 1:32:06

2+ y ago1:32:06

1:32:06

What is the topography of international-relations theory in the People's Republic of China? What is the "Chinese School of International Relations?" Astrid Nordin (King's College, London), Yan Xuetong (Tsinghua University), and Qin Yaqing (Peking University) join the podcast to answer these – and other – questions about Chinese international-relati…

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Reassessing Development: Dependency Theories and Debates 1:16:24

2+ y ago1:16:24

1:16:24

Alexander Scott speaks with LAP founding editor Ronald Chilcote and contributing editor Joana Salem to discuss their recent double issue of LAP titled Reassessing Development: Dependency Theories and Debates that was recently released in January and March of 2022. Topics covered include the founding and origins of the journal Latin American Perspec…

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SD Podcast Number 31 - Nivi Manchanda, Katharine Millar, and Chris Rossdale: Neglected Encounters: Militarism, Race and the Politics of Coloniality 1:17:23

2+ y ago1:17:23

1:17:23

In this episode, we talk to Nivi Machanda, Katharine Millar, and Chris Rossdale about their recent special issue on militarism, race and coloniality. They explain their motivation for collaborating on a project focused on foregrounding the racial and colonial character of militarism. We discuss in greater detail their respective articles on the pol…

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Episode 23: Being Academic and Pandemic Time 1:33:58

2+ y ago1:33:58

1:33:58

In this “Whiskey Optional” episode, PTJ facilitates a conversation among four colleagues from different countries and different kinds of academic institutions about the current global pandemic – not primarily about research on the pandemic, but about the experience of being an academic during the pandemic. Since part of that experience involves bri…

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Episode 22: So a Deputy Foreign Minister and an Academic Realist Walk into a Bar 2:04:40

3y ago2:04:40

2:04:40

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Episode 21: Constructivists All the Way Down 1:39:19

3y ago1:39:19

1:39:19

Is Constructivism best understood as a scholarly disposition, a body of theory, or an intellectual movement? Is it still relevant, or has it exceeded its shelf life? What if there are lots of Constructivists but they use different labels for their work? In our third "Whiskey Optional" episode, Dan Nexon sits down with Michelle Jurkovich (University…

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Episode 20: International Order 1:40:02

3y ago1:40:02

1:40:02

In this installment of "Whiskey Optional," Stacie Goddard (Wellesley), Evelyn Goh (Australian National University), and Kyle Lascurettes (Lewis and Clark) join the podcast. You'll never guess what the subject of discussion is. Unless you read the title of this episode. Then you'll know that it's about "International order." The panelists tackle suc…

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Episode 3: Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith, ‘The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism.’ 52:41

3y ago52:41

52:41

Our third episode features Pavithra Vasudevan and Sara Smith. Pavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Sara is Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They tell the inside story of researchi…

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Popular Feminism(s): Pasts, Presents, and Futures 41:11

3+ y ago41:11

41:11

LAP podcast host Alex Scott speaks with LAP editors Janet M. Conway and Nathalie Lebon to discuss "popular feminism" and the diverse forms of gendered agency appearing among Latin America’s poor, working-class and racialized communities, and their relation to the politics of feminism and to the broader left in the region. Among the many topics cove…

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Post-Neoliberal Development Paths in Latin America 1:02:47

3+ y ago1:02:47

1:02:47

For this episode LAP coordinator Alex Scott interviewed LAP contributing editors Kepa Artaraz and Melania Calestan to discuss their May 2021 issue "Vivir bien/Buen vivir and Post-Neoliberal Development Paths in Latin America: Scope, Strategies, and the Realities of Implementation."

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Episode 19: "W" Stands for "Canonical Realist" 0:47

3+ y ago0:47

0:47

PTJ and Dan pick up where they left off – on Chapter 5 of Arnold Wolfers' Discord and Collaboration. There's a lot going on, including a discussion of revisionism, the question of whether "friendship" is possible in world politics, and the distinction between "power" and "influence." They cover classic essays on, for example, the balance of power a…

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Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings 1:08:50

3+ y ago1:08:50

1:08:50

For this episode LAP coordinator Alex Scott met with LAP associate managing editor Steve Ellner to discuss his edited book titled Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings, recent events in progressive politics in Latin America and the current state of the pink tide

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Episode 18: Name Your Discord Server "and Collaboration" 1:36:41

3+ y ago1:36:41

1:36:41

Arnold Wolfers is one of the most important figures of "mainstream" mid-20th century international-relations theory, but is now mostly cited for his definition of "revisionism" and for perhaps his most famous essay, "'National Security' as an Ambiguous Symbol." Discord and Collaboration (1962) collects previously published essays and intersperses t…

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Episode 17: The Institutionalists Strike Back 1:41:46

3+ y ago1:41:46

1:41:46

Less than a year after the appearance of "The False Promise of International Institutions," the journal International Security published replies from Robert Keohane and Lisa Martin, John Ruggie, Clifford and Charles Kupchan, and Alexander Wendt. Patrick and Dan discuss this important moment in the "paradigm wars" of the 1990s and 2000s.…

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SD Podcast Number 30 - Natalie Koch; Food as a Weapon? The Geopolitics of Food and the Qatar–Gulf Rift 55:13

3+ y ago55:13

55:13

In this episode, we talk to Natalie Koch about her recent article on the food embargo imposed on Qatar by its regional neighbours in 2017 and the wider geopolitics of food it exemplifies. We discuss the long-standing persistence of the idea of “food as a weapon”, the entanglement of food security with discourses on territorial sovereignty, national…

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SD Podcast Number 29 - James Der Derian & Alex Wendt; Special Issue on Quantizing International Relations 1:08:00

3+ y ago1:08:00

1:08:00

We talk to James Der Derian and Alex Wendt, editors of the Special Issue on Quantizing International Relations. They explain the motivation for their recent collaboration and why they believe International Relations still needs to grapple with the implications of quantum science, both at the level of social theory and the ramifications of resulting…

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Episode 16: Promises, Promises 2:15:54

3+ y ago2:15:54

2:15:54

Patrick and Dan continue their nostalgic tour of 1990s international-relations theory and spend some time with John J. Mearsheimer's 1994 article "The False Promise of International Institutions." This episode runs over two hours, so you can always skip to: biographical material and the whisky selection (13:40); framing of the article (26:55); the …

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SD Podcast Number 28 - Antoine Bousquet, Jairus Grove & Nisha Shah; Special Issue on Becoming War 1:10:03

4y ago1:10:03

1:10:03

Guest host Michael Richardson speaks to the editors of the Special Issue on Becoming War (Vol. 51, No. 2-3). Drawing on their introductory article and all the contributions to the special issue, Antoine Bousquet, Jairus Grove, and Nisha Shah explain why they believe a new approach to the study of war is required today. The discussion explores the m…

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Episode 15: Understanding Remains an Open Question 1:34:22

4y ago1:34:22

1:34:22

Patrick and Dan discuss J. Ann Tickner's 1997 article, "You Just Don't Understand: Troubled Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists." Topics include liberalism and feminist theory, articles as coalition-building efforts, and Australian whisky.

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Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America 52:54

4y ago52:54

52:54

In this episode of the Latin American Perspectives podcast, Alexander Scott, Outreach Coordinator for Latin American Perspectives, Inc., discusses the January 2021 issue, "Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America" with Guest Editors Andrew R. Smolski and Matthew Lorenzen.…

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Episode 1: Luiza Bialasiewicz & Sabrina Stallone, 'Focalizing new-Fascism’ 49:52

4y ago49:52

49:52

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Episode 0: A brief introduction to the podcast 2:34

4y ago2:34

2:34

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Episode 14: Campbell Writes Security, part 2 1:11:49

4y ago1:11:49

1:11:49

It's not quite Song of Ice and Fire territory, but we're sure a few people will be pleased that the second half of our discussion of David Campbell's Writing Security has dropped.

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Episode 13: Campbell Writes Security, part 1 1:05:21

4y ago1:05:21

1:05:21

Patrick and Dan discuss a classic work of critical security studies, David Campbell's Writing Security. Topics include the construction of the Cold War and the film Rising Sun.

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The Rise and Fall of Marcha Verde in the Dominican Republic 52:22

4y ago52:22

52:22

In this episode of the Latin American Perspectives podcast, Alexander Scott, Outreach Coordinator for Latin American Perspectives, Inc., discusses the article "The Rise and Fall of Marcha Verde in the Dominican Republic" with author Emelio Betances.

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Episode 12: The Strange Regime 1:19:15

4+ y ago1:19:15

1:19:15

In a sequel (of sorts) to Episode 11, Patrick and Dan talk about Susan Strange's "Cave! hic dragones: a critique of regime analysis." Topics include a comparison of "American" and "European" IR, realism as critical theory, the evolution of liberal order (redux), and cats.

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Social Movements in Latin America: The Progressive Governments and Beyond 14:48

4+ y ago14:48

14:48

In this episode of the Latin American Perspectives podcast, Alexander Scott, Outreach Coordinator for Latin American Perspectives, Inc., discusses the July 2020 issue, "Social Movements in Latin America: The Progressive Governments and Beyond Part 1" with Guest Editor Ronaldo Munck.

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Episode 11: Embedded Liberalism 4:24

4+ y ago4:24

4:24

John Ruggie's 1982 article, which appeared in a special issue of International Organization on 'international regimes', is an important milestone for theories of hegemony, understandings of liberal (economic) order, and in the evolution of constructivism. Patrick and Dan revisit a piece they remember fondly from graduate school.…

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The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations in Latin America 46:51

4+ y ago46:51

46:51

In this episode of the Latin American Perspectives podcast, Alexander Scott, Outreach Coordinator for Latin American Perspectives, Inc., discusses the May 2015, September 2016, and November 2016 issues, "The Resurgence of Collective Memory, Truth, and Justice Mobilizations" Part I, Part II: Artistic and Cultural Resistance, and Part III: Culture, P…

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Episode 3: Bananas, Beaches and Bases, part 1 1:12:34

4+ y ago1:12:34

1:12:34

We discuss Cynthia Enloe's classic work of feminist international-relations theory. Note that this is a repost of the episode.

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Episode 10: (Epilogue) Race and Securitization Theory 20:52

4+ y ago20:52

20:52

After we finished recording the material in Episode 9, we stayed on and talked some more. These are the parts we all agreed are worth posting. Featuring special guests: Jarrod Hayes, Nawal Mustafa, and Robbie Shilliam.

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