Robert Cox’s landmark article, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Rela…
Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky
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Episode 28: Are We Living in a Simulation… of Sovereignty?
PTJ and Dan discuss Cynthia Weber’s 1994 book, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State an…
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…
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