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Podcast No. 20 – Interview with Phil Schrodt

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by Dan Nexon

11 02 2013

Phil Schrodt

The twentieth Duck of Minerva podcast features Phil Schrodt of Pennsylvania State University. The interview includes Professor Schrodt’s views on a number of interesting topics, including the history of quantitative and computational conflict studies, his “seven deadly sins” project, advice for graduate students in political science, and an explanation of his decision to take up blogging.

This is the third podcast to only feature an mp3 version. I don’t get the sense that anyone is missing the m4a (“enhanced”) enhanced podcasts, but please correct me if I am mistaken on that point.

I should reiterate important change to procedures. From now on, the Minervacast feed will always host mp3 versions of the podcasts. The whiteoliphaunt feed will host m4a versions when they are available–otherwise this feed will also host mp3 versions.

As of now, we’ve slipped into a bimonthly release schedule an apparently random schedule. That may return to a weekly schedule with the start of another academic semester. Or it might not. We’ll see.

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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.

5 Comments
  1. RobW
    RobW on 11 February 2013 at 15.04 EST

    As requested, I am writing to throw in my support for .m4a podcasts. The chapter markers are very helpful. Is it possible to just do .m4a and discontinue .mp3?

    • Dan Nexon
      Dan Nexon on 11 February 2013 at 15.10 EST

      The additional work comes from putting the chapter marks in. So the issue is really whether or not to have an m4a in addition to the mp3.

      But thanks for letting me know that there are some people who prefer having the chapter marks, etc. That will impact how I proceed. Anyone else?

  2. RobW
    RobW on 12 February 2013 at 13.00 EST

    Additional quick note here. The audio is quite patchy in parts. In at least three places Schrodt drops out a point that makes it difficult to hear his main point.

    • Guest
      Guest on 12 February 2013 at 13.30 EST

      Skype is not a landline.

      • DuckPM
        DuckPM on 12 February 2013 at 18.27 EST

        That was me, I thought I’d deleted this, sorry. That wasn’t supposed to be harsh just an explanation. Skype calls seem to degrade at +45minutes or so.