PTJ and Dan discuss Cynthia Weber’s 1994 book, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State an…
Episode 28: Are We Living in a Simulation… of Sovereignty?
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Episode 27: Everything is Relational
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...
Episode 26: Anarchy vs. The Anarchy
The University of Chicago’s Paul Poast claims that G. Lowes Dickinson is was the OG “modern” theo…
Episode 25: The New Hierarchy Studies
Scholars of international relations don’t agree on much, but they at least agree that anarchy (th…
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Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (PTJ) and Dan Nexon drink whiskey and discuss international-relations theory.
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Episode 24: International Relations in China
What is the topography of international-relations theory in the People’s Republic of China? What …
Episode 23: Being Academic and Pandemic Time
In this “Whiskey Optional” episode, PTJ facilitates a conversation among four colleagues from dif…
Episode 22: So a Deputy Foreign Minister and an Academic Realist Walk into a Bar…
In 2014, John Mearsheimer authored a Foreign Affairs article in which he blamed that year’s Ukrai…
Episode 21: Constructivists All the Way Down
Is Constructivism best understood as a scholarly disposition, a body of theory, or an intellectua…