Podcast No. 4 – the End of IR Theory?

11 08 2012

The fourth episode of the Duck of Minerva Podcast just went live. This one is about an hour. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and I talk about the “End of IR Theory” question. But not before, according to my wife, we engage in a low-rent click-and-clack routine — in which we attempt to falsify the hypothesis that we share a brain.

Contents:

Against the “Shared Brain” Hypotheses
PTJ and DHN Fail to Discuss SF
No to Yes.
The End of IR Theory?
IR Theory: The Original Series
Different Flavors of “Theory”
International Theory as Scientific Ontology
How’s IR Theory Doing, Then?
IR Theory Lurks Online?
Read More, Write Less!
New-ish Media Redux
End Matter.

Note: the publication date of the podcasts remains in flux, but I am aiming to have them appear Friday-Sunday each week.

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Dan Nexon

Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.

He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.

He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.