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.
Duckcalls is the official The Duck of Minerva podcast. It covers a variety of topics related to international-relations scholarship, ranging from current events to life as an academic. In other words, it's a lot like The Duck of Minerva itself. This extends to hosting. Jarrod Hayes runs Duckcalls, but he also hands over the reigns for specific thematic series. Duckcalls began in 2019. The previous Duck of Minerva podcast – Minerva Cast – ended...
The Hayseed Scholar is a podcast where political science, history, sociology and international-relations scholars reflect upon their journeys, work, practices, and challenges as academics. Guests talk about where they grew up, what schooling and living in various places was like, how they made decisions about college or university majors, and what other career paths they decided against in favor of academia. They reflect on topics like going on...
Whiskey and International-Relations Theory is a podcast where two middle-aged academics drink whiskey and work their way through an article or book about, or relevant to, international theory. Patrick chooses a whiskey – technically speaking, almost always whisky – and explains its relationship to the work under discussion. The podcast focuses on "classics" in the field. If you want to 'read along' you can find information about upcoming...
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 Martin, John Ruggie, Clifford and Charles Kupchan, and Alexander Wendt. Patrick and Dan discuss this important moment in the "paradigm wars" of the 1990s and 2000s.
Professor Francois Debrix of Virginia Tech University joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Francois grew up in France, attending college there with degrees in Spanish and English, and then International Law, Political Science and Diplomatic History. An exchange program through the University of Strasbourg brought Francois to the US and Purdue, where he pursued his Master's, and then PhD under the supervision of Cynthia Weber. Professor...
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For decades, many International Relations (IR) scholars portrayed experiments with foreign policy elites as too risky, too costly, or too difficult to implement. Faculty mentors discouraged graduate students from wasting their time. In a new article in European Journal of International Relations, we argue that elite experiments are not as difficult to implement as many believe they are. However, they do require careful planning in order to get...