Podcast Recommendations

Academia • Other Podcasts • Security • Theory & Methods

16 11 2022

I just wanted to flag some recent international-relations podcast episodes that I particularly enjoyed.

Power Problems, currently hosted by John Glaser, is Cato’s in-house international-affairs podcast. In the latest episode, Glaser talks with Jason Castillo about “Nuclear Weapons, Strategic Stability, and Ukraine.” I don’t agree with every argument, but it’s an exceptionally clear discussion of theories of nuclear deterrence — and not just in the context of Ukraine, but also in terms of the larger strategic environment.

In the new episode of New Books in World Affairs, Miranda Melcher interviews Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira — familiar names to long-time Duck readers — about their cool new edited volume on The Sea and International Relations. I’ve watched the project develop from a distance, and it’s come together nicely. Melcher moves the discussion along nicely, and Benjamin and Halvard turn out to be very good at the whole academic-podcast thing.

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.