Daniel J. Levine is the Aaron Aronov Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama, where he divides his time between the Departments of Political Science and Religious Studies. He is the author of Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique (Oxford UP, 2012), with publications appearing and forthcoming in numerous scholarly journals and volumes. His current research deals with fear and its role...
Iain [Menzies] Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was born in Fife and was educated at Stirling University, where he studied English Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. His first science fiction novel, Consider Phlebas, was published in 1987. He continued to write both mainstream fiction (as Iain Banks) and science...
Gerard van der Ree is an Assistant Professor at University College Utrecht. His field of expertise is International Relations (IR) theory and comparative methodology, interdisciplinarity, philosophy of science, and Latin American Studies. He currently work on issues regarding phenomenology, epistemology and reflexivity in IR.
Iver Brynild Neumann is a Norwegian political scientist and social anthropologist. He is Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute at Polhøgda, Lysaker, a position he has held since December 2019. From 2012-2017 he was the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also served as Research Director and Director at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and...
Matthew Fuhrmann is Professor of Political Science and Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. His previous positions include Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (2016-17), Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (2010-11), and Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs...
Todd S. Sechser is the Pamela Feinour Edmonds and Franklin S. Edmonds Jr. Discovery Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia; Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy; and a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. Dr. Sechser’s research interests include coercive diplomacy, emerging technologies, nuclear security, and political violence. He is coauthor of the book Nuclear Weapons...
Matthew Kroenig is a Professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. A 2019 study in Perspectives on Politics ranked him as one of the top 25 most-cited political scientists of his generation. Dr. Kroenig is the author or editor of seven books, including The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the US and China (Oxford University...
The original Duck of Minerva podcast ran from 2012-2013. The bulk of the episodes are interviews with international-relations scholars at various stages of their careers. Dan Nexon generally hosted, but he was sometimes joined by another contributor to the website. By today's standards for amateur podcasts, the audio quality is crude. But the interview subjects are generally quite interesting.