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Whiskey & International Relations Theory

Drs. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Daniel Nexon

Patrick and Dan work their way through a piece of international-relations scholarship. And drink whiskey.

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S2 · E1
July 20 · 1 hr 36 min
Episode 1: Gates of the West
We're baaack!In the inaugural episode of the second season of Whiskey and International Relations...
S1 · E33
Oct 15, 2023 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 33: Status? You Just Met Us!
[audio updated to fix a mixing error]The second installment of our live taping at the British Int...
S1 · E32
Aug 18, 2023 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky
Robert Cox's landmark article, "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Rela...
S1 · E31
Jul 17, 2023 · 1 hr 56 min
Episode 31: Great Balls of Power
Back in 2019, Uri Friedman wrote that we "find ourselves—as you will have heard in the corridors ...
S1 · E30
May 18, 2023 · 1 hr 25 min
Episode 30: A Long, Strange Trek
It's our first "actual" installment of Whiskey & IR Theory in Space! We discuss Star Trek: Th...
S1 · E29
Apr 21, 2023 · 50 min
Episode 29: Introducing: Whiskey & IR Theory... in Space!
Patrick and Dan talk about the newest feature of the podcast: a series in which they combine thei...
S1 · E28
Mar 11, 2023 · 2 hr 38 min
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...
S1 · E27
Jan 29, 2023 · 1 hr 57 min
Episode 27: Everything is Relational
It's a nostalgia episode for our two hosts, Patrick and Dan.They tackle Mustafa Emirbayer's 1997 ...
S1 · E26
Oct 11, 2022 · 1 hr 31 min
Episode 26: Anarchy vs. The Anarchy
The University of Chicago's Paul Poast claims that G. Lowes Dickinson was the OG "modern" theoris...
S1 · E25
Aug 9, 2022 · 1 hr 26 min
Episode 25: The New Hierarchy Studies
Scholars of international relations don't agree on much, but they at least agree that anarchy (th...
S1 · E24
Jun 20, 2022 · 1 hr 32 min
Episode 24: International Relations in China
What is the topography of international-relations theory in the People's Republic of China? What ...
S1 · E23
Apr 19, 2022 · 1 hr 33 min
Episode 23: Being Academic and Pandemic Time
In this “Whiskey Optional” episode, PTJ facilitates a conversation among four colleagues from dif...
S1 · E22
Mar 8, 2022 · 2 hr 4 min
Episode 22: So a Deputy Foreign Minister and an Academic Realist Walk into a Bar
In 2014, John Mearsheimer authored a Foreign Affairs article in which he blamed that year's Ukrai...
S1 · E21
Jan 26, 2022 · 1 hr 39 min
Episode 21: Constructivists All the Way Down
Is Constructivism best understood as a scholarly disposition, a body of theory, or an intellectua...
S1 · E20
Oct 7, 2021 · 1 hr 40 min
Episode 20: International Order
In this installment of "Whiskey Optional," Stacie Goddard (Wellesley), Evelyn Goh (Australian Nat...
S1 · E19
Jul 31, 2021 · 47 sec
Episode 19: "W" Stands for "Canonical Realist"
PTJ and Dan pick up where they left off – on Chapter 5 of Arnold Wolfers' Discord and Collaborati...
S1 · E18
Jul 17, 2021 · 1 hr 36 min
Episode 18: Name Your Discord Server "and Collaboration"
Arnold Wolfers is one of the most important figures of "mainstream" mid-20th century internationa...
S1 · E17
Jun 22, 2021 · 1 hr 41 min
Episode 17: The Institutionalists Strike Back
Less than a year after the appearance of "The False Promise of International Institutions," the j...
S1 · E16
Mar 26, 2021 · 2 hr 15 min
Episode 16: Promises, Promises
Patrick and Dan continue their nostalgic tour of 1990s international-relations theory and spend s...
S1 · E15
Feb 10, 2021 · 1 hr 34 min
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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