The fifteenth Duck of Minerva podcast features Barry Buzan. Professor Buzan discusses his academic and intellectual biography, his major works, and his ongoing projects. For additional background readers might consult the interview at Theory Talks or at the London School of Economics Department of International Relations blog.  In short, Buzan is a toweringly influential figure in international relations in general, and outside the US in particular. He is also, among numerous contributions to the discipline, a former editor of the European Journal of International Relations.
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.
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- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
Thanks for clearing up how the podcast links work for me. I kept downloading m4a files and wondering why my player failed to run them. I’m really looking forward to listening to Buzan.
Along similar lines, I can’t listen to ay of the mp3 files I download prior to podcast 10. Is there a reason for this, apart from my technological ineptitude? Great site by the way, which I stumbled across completely by accident. I’m also looking forward to Buzan, who I have mixed feelings about after reading Regions and Powers
1-9 are currently only available in m4a format. See: https://tinyurl.com/bk9xvwm
Six degrees of Barry Buzan. Love it! Thank you for all the interviews with these scholars, both upcoming and established.
I saw him on a panel at ISA. That was awesome. Looking forward to listening.
Hi there – thanks for linking to the LSE International Relations Department blog above. However, the blog has now moved and so the link you want to Barry Buzan’s interview can now be found at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationalrelations/2011/05/05/interview-with-professor-barry-buzan/ – please could you update the link? Many thanks! IR Web Editor
Really enjoyed this podcast. Just thought I’d mention that Andrew Phillips who was talked about in the podcast briefly is at University of Queensland, not ANU.