This is just a quick note to ask for input.
I’m planning out the Duck of Minerva podcast schedule for the next few weeks. My original plan was to alternate interviews with some kind of “riff” episode involving two or more Duck contributors. But PTJ will be unavailable and most of the Duck crew is really busy, so I’ve been focusing on interview episodes.
I’ve either scheduled or am in the process of scheduling those interviews. I’m very pleased with the list of scholars who have agreed to come on the podcast, but I’d like to know if there are specific individuals that our readers would like to hear talk about themselves and their work.
I’d be much obliged, therefore, if you would leave suggestions in comments.
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.
Alex Wendt, Bob Keohane
Jennifer Mitzen. Vincent. Jim Vreeland.
Anirudh Krishna (Duke). Mike Bratton (MSU). James Scott (Yale).
Wendt? Keohane? Haven’t we heard enough from them? Given the heavy Yankee-positivist bias of the site, why not get foreign and funky? You must have access to Iver Neumann. Ole Waever’s a gas. Steffano Guzzini’s a decent conversationalist. I’ve heard good things about Donatella Della Porta. Felix Berenskoetter’s usually great, and Benjamin Herborth is another noteworthy, young German. You could also add some more political theorists, like Archibugi & Linklater. Sorry I couldn’t think of more women for the list I’d be keen to listen to.
Oh! Roxanne Doty. Can’t vouch for her, but it would be something different.
Lene Hansen at Copenhagen
Talked to her at ISA this year. She was impressive.
Positivist? I’d like to think we hold up our end of the non-positivst scales for a US-based IR collective :-).
Yankee? Yeah, good point. It isn’t like we have limited non-US contacts.
“Given the heavy Yankee-positivist bias of the site, why not get foreign and funky?”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
Our positivists are mostly Southrons, suh. Or at least from border states.
Yankee isn’t a geographical designation, but a state of mind.
That’s actually why I object to being labeled as such :)
I’d like to hear Waever
Another vote for Stefano. Not only a brilliant theorist, but a hell of a piano player too!
Agree on Iver Neumann. A discussion of his coauthored book with Ole Sending would make excellent podcast material.
Mike williams at Ottawa
I’ve seen him multiple times. Great speaker with lots options for topics (securitization theory/political realism/private security).
Brian Schmidt on the Historiography of IR. Good speaker and he has just released a new book. I know him personally so I could probably set this up.
Either Jonathan Mercer on emotion and rationality in IR or Andrew Ross on the (troubled) relationship between emotion and constructivism.
Nicolas Guilot, maybe?
According to the top-ranked posts for this site, this should have been phrased as “Hey, I just posted, and this is crazy, but here’s my suggestion: Gullot, maybe?”
Fiona Robinson. Wanda Vrasti. V. Spike Petersen. Christine Sylvester. Meera Sabaratnam.
Just to mix things up a little, here are a few non-PoliSci or non-traditional IR people who could be interesting to get on the podcast:
Julia Adams (Sociology, Yale)
Matthew Connelly (History, Columbia)
Edward Keene (IR, Oxford)
Samuel Moyn (History, Columbia)
Erik Ringmar (IR, Shanghai Jiaotong)
Lastly, I would personally love to hear PTJ and Philip Gorski talk about Weber and Weberian analysis, but the audience for such a discussion might be very narrow indeed.
Oh, and just one more:
Brett Bowden (History & Political Thought, UNSW Canberra)
Dan Deudney?
How about Randy Schweller?
Amitav Acharya
Maja Zehfuss
C. Raja Mohan
Naeem Inayatullah
T.V. Paul
Laleh Khalili
Bruce Cummings
Avery Goldstein
Steven Levitsky
and a second vote for Samuel Moyn (suggested by another commenter)
Chris Reus-Smit (who I believe will have a new book out soon…)
Martha Finnemore (what’s she working on now anyway?)