Episode 22: So a Deputy Foreign Minister and an Academic Realist Walk into a Bar… by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Dan Nexon | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Whiskey & IR TheoryIn 2014, John Mearsheimer authored a Foreign Affairs article in which he blamed that year’s Ukrai… read more
Episode 17: The Institutionalists Strike Back by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Dan Nexon | Jul 1, 2021 | Featured, Whiskey & IR Theoryess than a year after the appearance of "The False Promise of International Institutions," the journal International Security published replies from Robert Keohane and Lisa... read more
Episode 16: Promises, Promises by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Dan Nexon | Mar 26, 2021 | Whiskey & IR TheoryPatrick and Dan continue their nostalgic tour of 1990s international-relations theory and spend s… read more
Episode 15: Understanding Remains an Open Question by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Dan Nexon | Feb 10, 2021 | Whiskey & IR TheoryPatrick and Dan discuss J. Ann Tickner’s 1997 article, “You Just Don’t Understand: Troubled Engag… read more
Episode 12: The Strange Regime by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Dan Nexon | Jul 22, 2020 | Whiskey & IR TheoryIn a sequel (of sorts) to Episode 11, Patrick and Dan talk about Susan Strange’s “Cave! hic drago… read more
Episode 11: Embedded Liberalism by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Dan Nexon | Jul 7, 2020 | Whiskey & IR TheoryJohn Ruggie’s 1982 article, which appeared in a special issue of International Organization on ‘i… read more
Episode 3: Bananas, Beaches and Bases, part 1 by Dan Nexon & Patrick Thaddeus Jackson | Jun 17, 2020 | Whiskey & IR TheoryWe discuss Cynthia Enloe’s classic work of feminist international-relations theory. Note that thi… read more
Episode 10: (Epilogue) Race and Securitization Theory by Dan Nexon & Patrick Thaddeus Jackson | May 25, 2020 | Whiskey & IR TheoryAfter we finished recording the material in Episode 9, we stayed on and talked some more. These a… read more