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.
IR Talk
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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.
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April 21, 2022
S2 E15: Bonus Episode - Henry Kissinger with Professor Jeremi Suri
<p>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:</p> <p><a href="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">Henry Kissinger and the American Century</a></p> <p><a href="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">The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office</a></p> <p><a href="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">Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004INHCYC/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3">Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama</a></p>
April 14, 2022
S2 E14: Bonus Episode - Israel's Moment with Professor Jeffrey Herf
<p>Note: This episode was recorded on March 3, 2022 so any reference to political events are from that time. </p> <p>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:</p> <p><a href="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">Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949</a></p> <p><a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/putins-continuities-from-israelis-as-nazis-to-denazifying-ukraine/">Putin’s Continuities: From ‘Israelis as Nazis’ to ‘Denazifying’ Ukraine (Times of Israel)</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030MIDNQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2">Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World</a></p> <p><a href="//Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich">Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DPNK5PS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i4">Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989</a></p>
March 3, 2022
S2 E13: Bonus Episode - The uses of history with Professor Daniel Sargent
<p>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:</p> <p><a href="https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/9275673/h-diploissf-forum-31-importance-scholarship-ernest-may">Forum on the Importance of the Scholarship of Ernest May</a></p> <p><a href="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">A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s</a></p> <p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/42/3/357/4954169">Pax Americana: Sketches for an Undiplomatic History</a></p> <p><a href="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">Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition</a></p> <p><a href="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">The Origins of Alliances</a></p> <p><a href="https://history.berkeley.edu/rebecca-herman">Rebecca Herman</a></p>
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