It’s our first “actual” installment of Whiskey & IR Theory in Space! We discuss Star Trek: Th…

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 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…
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (PTJ) and Dan Nexon drink whiskey and discuss international-relations theory.
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…
Scholars of international relations don’t agree on much, but they at least agree that anarchy (th…
What is the topography of international-relations theory in the People’s Republic of China? What …