In 2014, John Mearsheimer authored a Foreign Affairs article in which he blamed that year’s Ukrai…
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Whiskey & IR Theory
Episode 17: The Institutionalists Strike Back
ess than a year after the appearance of "The False Promise of International Institutions," the journal International Security published replies from Robert Keohane and Lisa...
Episode 16: Promises, Promises
Patrick and Dan continue their nostalgic tour of 1990s international-relations theory and spend s…
Episode 15: Understanding Remains an Open Question
Patrick and Dan discuss J. Ann Tickner’s 1997 article, “You Just Don’t Understand: Troubled Engag…
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Episode 12: The Strange Regime
In a sequel (of sorts) to Episode 11, Patrick and Dan talk about Susan Strange’s “Cave! hic drago…
Episode 11: Embedded Liberalism
John Ruggie’s 1982 article, which appeared in a special issue of International Organization on ‘i…
Episode 3: Bananas, Beaches and Bases, part 1
We discuss Cynthia Enloe’s classic work of feminist international-relations theory. Note that thi…
Episode 10: (Epilogue) Race and Securitization Theory
After we finished recording the material in Episode 9, we stayed on and talked some more. These a…