Jarrod is joined by Daniela Lai and Adam Lerner to talk about the role of big questions in IR scholarship and teaching.
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Episode 11 – Maria Mälksoo
Professor Mälksoo talks growing up in a small town in Estonia during and at the end of the Cold War, the decision to go to the University of Tartu, her exchange year in Montana taking the GRE in Helsinki, and getting her picture taken following a rainstorm.
Episode 3: Bananas, Beaches and Bases, part 1
We discuss Cynthia Enloe’s classic work of feminist international-relations theory. Note that thi…
Episode 10 – Juliet Kaarbo
rofessor Juliet Kaarbo of the University of Edinburgh and Brent go way back to their days as colleagues at the University of Kansas in the mid-late 2000s. Julie shares with Brent...
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New Podcast: Interview with Patrick James
Well, sort of. I've been getting a surprising number of emails asking for new podcasts. This semester was a killer, and no one else on the team wants to spearhead the effort. I hope to do some more before all hades breaks loose next academic year. But for now, I should note that my series over at New Books in Science Fiction & Fantasy has reemerged from its own hiatus -- and with a cross-over podcast! In it, I interview USC's Patrick James about his and Abigail E. Ruane's book, The International Relations of Middle-Earth: Learning from the Lord of the Rings. Well, what are you waiting...
Podcast No. 20 – Interview with Phil Schrodt
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Podcast No. 19 – Interview with Daniel Drezner
The nineteenth Duck of Minerva podcast features Daniel Drezner of Tufts University.
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The eighteenth Duck of Minerva podcast features Stefano Guzzini of the Danish Institute for International Studies and Uppsala University . Professor Guzzini discusses, among other things his intellectual and educational background, his important work on power in international affairs, realism, and geopolitics. This podcast is a bit more "bare bones" than usual. I didn't put in introductory remarks; I have not produced an m4a version at this time. The file located here is the mp3 version. Explanation: I am bit pressed for time right now. I should reiterate important change...