Some more excerpts from G. Loews Dickinson’s writings on international affairs.
The More Things Change…
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international relations theory
Radical IR: approaches or implications?
Dillon Tatum had an interesting post here last week, calling for a “radical” international relations. As Tatum notes, "radicalism intervenes in the political domain with the goal of...
What makes international order, liberal?
Over the weekend IR Twitter was abuzz with both the Red Sox winning the world series and a multi-threaded discussion on liberal international order. Regarding the former I have very little to say...
Do we need to teach the IR paradigms at all?
Over the weekend, fellow guest contributor Luke Perez had an interesting post on whether we need to include the grand paradigms of international relations (realism, liberalism, and constructivism)...
More international relations theory Posts
Podcast No. 15 – Interview with Barry Buzan
2012 interview with Barry Buzan.
In the year 2000….
Hi everyone. I haven’t been around much lately as I’ve been furiously writing a book. But it is almost done and I’m feeling reflective. Have you missed me? I’ve missed you. What’s that you say? Why yes, this is a new shirt. Thank you for noticing. I thought that I would offer some thoughts about where I think international relations research is heading in the near to medium-term future, based on what I’ve noticed about the job market, what friends are writing, and the sometimes surprising reactions to what I am doing on the part of others. Obviously this is all anecdotal and unsystematic, as...
Institutions, Norms, and Cooperation
A strong correlation between cooperation and membership in international institutions is not enough to establish that international institutions cause cooperation. If we're to claim that institutions matter, we need to at least identify mechanisms by which institutions might promote cooperation among actors who would otherwise be disinclined to cooperate with one another. The mere fact that such mechanisms can be articulated does not itself tell us whether the correlation is causal, but it lends a certain measure of plausible to causal interpretations that would otherwise be lacking....
Podcast No. 13 – A Conversation with Nick Onuf (m4a)
The thirteenth Duck of Minerva podcast features Nicholas Onuf.
Podcast No. 11 – Interview with Janice Bially Mattern
Featuring Janice Bially Mattern. From 2012.
I CAN HAS IR THEORY? 2
More slides from the talk after the fold.
Podcast No. 10 – Interview with Vincent Pouliot
2012 interview with Vincent Pouliot.
Morning Link, with Commentary, on the Shrinking Place of Theory in Sociology and IR
I'm crashing on multiple deadlines, so in lieu of "morning linkage".... Last night I was in a twitter conversation with Phil Arena and Kindred Winecoff about Fabio Rojas' recent post at orgtheory.net concerning the incredible shrinking vocation of social theory. Roja's observations echoe themes that we've been talking about at the Duck, both in print and in PTJ and my 10 August 2012 podcast (m4a). After quoting Kieran Healy's excerpt from his grad-level sociological theory syllabus -- about the incredible shrinking character of social theory -- Rojas argues that: A humanities style...