Robert Cox’s landmark article, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Rela…

Robert Cox’s landmark article, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Rela…
Back in 2019, Uri Friedman wrote that we “find ourselves—as you will have heard in the corridors …
It’s our first “actual” installment of Whiskey & IR Theory in Space! We discuss Star Trek: Th…
Don't miss the live recording of episodes 32 and 33 of Whiskey & IR Theory on June 21, 2023, starting at 3pm. We'll be taping at the BISA annual conference. Rumors suggest that there may be...
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (PTJ) and Dan Nexon drink whiskey and discuss international-relations theory.
Patrick and Dan talk about the newest feature of the podcast: a series in which they combine thei…
PTJ and Dan discuss Cynthia Weber’s 1994 book, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State an…
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 processes, in static 'things' or in dynamic, unfolding relations." Was that also true of International Relations? PTJ and Dan certainly thought so back in 1999. Is it still true today? The two may or may not...
The University of Chicago’s Paul Poast claims that G. Lowes Dickinson is was the OG “modern” theo…