IR Talk is a podcast on the history, theory, and practice of international relations. Each week, Elan Kluger, a high school student passionate about international relations interviews a historian, lawyer, ambassador, political scientist, or someone else somehow involved in international relations. Listen along for inside look into the way international relations actually works.
S2 E15: Bonus Episode - Henry Kissinger with Professor Jeremi Suri
Professor Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books including Henry Kissinger and the American Century, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office and many other excellent works. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
Henry Kissinger and the American Century (https://www.amazon.com/Henry-Kissinger-American-Century-Jeremi/dp/0674032527/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ERXLA1OXP1XY&keywords=henry+kissinger+american+century&qid=1650057879&sprefix=henry+kissinger+and+the+ameri%2Caps%2C85&sr=8-1)
The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office (https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Presidency-Americas-Highest-Office-ebook/dp/B071RK96TZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IH7W9CA3I8O7&keywords=the+impossible+presidency&qid=1650057901&sprefix=the+impossible+preside%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-1)
Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente (https://www.amazon.com/Power-Protest-Global-Revolution-Detente/dp/0674017633/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1TOTMT0X0ZK4S&keywords=jeremi+suri&qid=1650057850&sprefix=jeremi+suri%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-2)
Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004INHCYC/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3)
14 Apr 2022TRANSCRIPT
S2 E14: Bonus Episode - Israel's Moment with Professor Jeffrey Herf
Note: This episode was recorded on March 3, 2022 so any reference to political events are from that time.
Professor Jeffrey is distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of numerous books on Germany as well as Israel, including Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989, and his latest Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 which was published on April 14th, the release date of this episode. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 (https://www.amazon.com/Israels-Moment-International-Opposition-Establishing/dp/1316517969/ref=sr_1_3?crid=38YU3BW49S5DW&keywords=israel+moment&qid=1649438408&sprefix=israels+moment%2Caps%2C244&sr=8-3)
Putin’s Continuities: From ‘Israelis as Nazis’ to ‘Denazifying’ Ukraine (Times of Israel) (https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/putins-continuities-from-israelis-as-nazis-to-denazifying-ukraine/)
Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030MIDNQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2)
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (//Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich)
Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DPNK5PS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i4)
3 Mar 2022TRANSCRIPT
S2 E13: Bonus Episode - The uses of history with Professor Daniel Sargent
Professor Sargent is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds a dual appointment with the history department and the Goldman School of Public Policy. Professor Sargent is the author of the brilliant A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
Forum on the Importance of the Scholarship of Ernest May (https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/9275673/h-diploissf-forum-31-importance-scholarship-ernest-may)
A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s (https://www.amazon.com/Superpower-Transformed-Remaking-American-Relations-ebook/dp/B00PAXBABA/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1ZAKMUN18BRS&keywords=superpower+transformed&qid=1645100085&sprefix=superpower+trans%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-3)
Pax Americana: Sketches for an Undiplomatic History (https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/42/3/357/4954169)
Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition (https://www.amazon.com/Myths-Empire-Domestic-Politics-International/dp/0801497647/ref=sr_1_1?crid=25DIWIJFL1M6E&keywords=myths+of+empire+jack+snyder&qid=1645100210&sprefix=myths+of+empire%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1)
The Origins of Alliances (https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Alliances-Cornell-Studies-Security/dp/0801494184/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=stephen+m.+walt%2C+the+origins+of+alliances&qid=1645100251&sprefix=stephen+walt+origin+of+all%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1)
Rebecca Herman (https://history.berkeley.edu/rebecca-herman)
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S2 E15: Bonus Episode - Henry Kissinger with Professor Jeremi Suri
Published 21 Apr 2022 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Think about where we are today. We need transformative action on climate change. We need transformative action on nuclear proliferation. We need transformative action on war in Europe and East Asian tensions, but all the constraints you mentioned so well are constraints that are there today. […]
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