Podcasts by Whiskey
Further podcasts by Drs. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Daniel Nexon
Podcast on the topic Sozialwissenschaften
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Episode 33: Status? You Just Met Us! from 2023-10-15T16:31
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The second installment of our live taping at the British International Studies Association annual convention in Glasgow is a "Whisky Optional" roundt...
Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky from 2023-08-18T21:46:26
Robert Cox's landmark article, "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory," ap...
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Episode 31: Great Balls of Power from 2023-07-17T12:09:59
Back in 2019, Uri Friedman wrote that we "find ourselves—as you will have heard in...
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Episode 30: A Long, Strange Trek from 2023-05-18T19:32:48
It's our first "actual" installment of Whiskey & IR Theory in Space! We discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation's 'gay rights' episode, "The Outcast," which Dan uses to introduce his students...
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Episode 29: Introducing: Whiskey&IR Theory... in Space! from 2023-04-21T00:52:12
Patrick and Dan talk about the newest feature of the podcast: a series in which they combine their long-running seminars on (international) politics and science fiction.
In each episode o...
Episode 28: Are We Living in a Simulation... of Sovereignty? from 2023-03-11T18:37:18
PTJ and Dan discuss Cynthia Weber's 1994 book, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, th...
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Episode 27: Everything is Relational from 2023-01-29T22:48:01
It's a nostalgia episode for our two hosts, Patrick and Dan.
They tackle Mustafa Emirbayer's 1997 article in the
Episode 26: Anarchy vs. The Anarchy from 2022-10-11T22:48:33
The University of Chicago's Paul Poast claims that G. Lowes Dickinson was the OG "modern" theorist of international relations—and also an "offensive realists." John Mearsheimer invokes Dickinson...
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Episode 25: The New Hierarchy Studies from 2022-08-09T19:45:57
Scholars of international relations don't agree on much, but they at least agree that anarchy (the lack of a common authority to make and enforce rules) is the defining feature of international ...
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Episode 24: International Relations in China from 2022-06-20T02:13:13
What is the topography of international-relations theory in the People's Republic of China? What is the "Chinese School of International Relations?" Listen
Episode 23: Being Academic and Pandemic Time from 2022-04-19T01:23:08
In this “Whiskey Optional” episode, PTJ facilitates a conversation among four colleagues from different countries and different kinds of academic institutions about the current global pandemic –...
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Episode 22: So a Deputy Foreign Minister and an Academic Realist Walk into a Bar from 2022-03-08T07:54:21
In 2014, John Mearsheimer authored a Foreign Affairs article in which he blam...
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Episode 21: Constructivists All the Way Down from 2022-01-26T22:59:24
Is Constructivism best understood as a scholarly disposition, a body of theory, or an intellectual movement? Is it still relevant, or has it exceeded its shelf life? What if there are lots of Co...
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Episode 20: International Order from 2021-10-07T20:12:49
In this installment of "Whiskey Optional," Stacie Goddard (Wellesley), Evelyn Goh (Australian National University), and Kyle Lascurettes (Lewis and Clark) join the podcast. You'll never guess wh...
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Episode 19:"W"Stands for"Canonical Realist" from 2021-07-31T00:20:36
PTJ and Dan pick up where they left off – on Chapter 5 of Arnold Wolfers' Discord and Collaboration. There's a lot going on, including a discussion of revisionism, the question of whether "frien...
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Episode 18: Name Your Discord Server"and Collaboration" from 2021-07-17T21:35:47
Arnold Wolfers is one of the most important figures of "mainstream" mid-20th century international-relations theory, but is now mostly ...
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Episode 17: The Institutionalists Strike Back from 2021-06-22T01:27:51
Less 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,...
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Episode 16: Promises, Promises from 2021-03-26T04:15:56
Patrick and Dan continue their nostalgic tour of 1990s international-relations theory and spend some time with John J. Mearsheimer's 1994 article "The False Promise of International Institutions." ...
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Episode 15: Understanding Remains an Open Question from 2021-02-10T06:55:10
Patrick and Dan discuss J. Ann Tickner's 1997 article, "You Just Don't Understand: Troubled Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists." Topics include liberalism and feminist theory, articles ...
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Episode 15: Understanding Remains an Open Question from 2021-02-10T06:55:10
Patrick and Dan discuss J. Ann Tickner's 1997 article, "You Just Don't Understand: Troubled Engagements Between Feminists and IR Theorists." Topics include liberalism and feminist theory, articles ...
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Episode 14: Campbell Writes Security, part 2 from 2020-12-22T03:52:05
It's not quite Song of Ice and Fire territory, but we're sure a few people will be pleased that the second half of our discussion of David Campbell's Writing Security has dropped.
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Episode 14: Campbell Writes Security, part 2 from 2020-12-22T03:52:05
It's not quite Song of Ice and Fire territory, but we're sure a few people will be please...
Episode 13: Campbell Writes Security, part 1 from 2020-11-03T00:10:24
Patrick and Dan discuss a classic work of critical security studies, David Campbell's Writing Security. Topics include the construction of the Cold War and the film Rising Sun.
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Episode 12: The Strange Regime from 2020-07-22T04:39:32
In a sequel (of sorts) to Episode 11, Patrick and Dan talk about Susan Strange's "Cave! hic dragones: a critique of regime analysis." Topics include a comparison of "American" and "European" IR, re...
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Episode 11: Embedded Liberalism from 2020-07-07T06:36:22
John Ruggie's 1982 article, which appeared in a special issue of International Organization on 'international regimes', is an important milestone for theories of hegemony, understandings of liberal...
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Episode 3: Bananas, Beaches and Bases, part 1 from 2020-06-17T21:01:32
We discuss Cynthia Enloe's classic work of feminist international-relations theory. Note that this is a repost of the episode.
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Episode 10: (Epilogue) Race and Securitization Theory from 2020-05-25T01:23:06
After we finished recording the material in Episode 9, we stayed on and talked some more. These are the parts we all agreed are worth posting. Featuring special guests: Jarrod Hayes, Nawal Mustafa,...
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Episode 10: (Epilogue) Race and Securitization Theory from 2020-05-25T01:23:06
After we finished recording the material in Episode 9, we stayed on and talked some more. These are the parts we all agreed are worth posting. Featuring special guests: Jarrod Hayes, Nawal Mustafa,...
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Episode 9: Race and Securitization Theory from 2020-05-21T21:58:46
Patrick and Dan host a panel discussion with Jarrod Hayes, Nawal Mustafa, and Robbie Shilliam.
Their guests try to provide theoretical context for and some larger analysis of the recent con...
Episode 8: A Relational Theory of World Politics, part 2 from 2020-05-13T19:51:02
Dan and Patrick finish out their discussion of Yaqing Qin's 2018 book. They focus on aspects of Qin's version of relational theorizing and reflect on some of his normative claims.
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Episode 7: A Relational Theory of World Politics, part 1 from 2020-05-06T20:39:58
Yaqing Qin's book marks, according to Astrid Nordin, a long-awaited "full-length English-language" outline of the "theorization of world politics by one of China's most influential and interesting ...
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Episode 6: Wendt's (Article) World, part 2 from 2020-04-13T16:36:14
The second half of our discussion of two of Wendt's most important articles in the development of "Constructivism" as an approach to the study of world politics.
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Episode 5: Wendt's (Article) World, Part 1 from 2020-04-09T21:09:47
Patrick and Dan talk about Alexander Wendt, drop some bits about the early history of Constructivism, and then discuss his important 1987 article, The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relat...
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Episode 4: Bananas, Beaches and Bases, Part 2 from 2020-03-23T01:43:18
We conclude our look at a classic work of feminist international theory. Note that Part 1 (Episode 3) displays out of order in some feeds.
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Episode 2: Theory of International Politics, part 2 from 2020-02-08T23:02:20
Patrick and Dan finish out their discussion of Waltz's classic work, Theory of International Politics.
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Episode 2: Theory of International Politics, part 2 from 2020-02-08T23:02:20
Patrick and Dan finish out their discussion of Waltz's classic work, Theory of Interna...
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Episode 1: Theory of International Politics, part 1 from 2020-02-05T16:13:56
Patrick and Dan discuss Waltz's classic book and foundational text of structural realism, Theory of International Politics.
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