Whiskey & International Relations Theory
Claim This Podcastby Drs. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson & Daniel Nexon
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<p>Patrick and Dan work their way through a piece of international-relations scholarship. And drink whiskey.</p>
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October 15, 2023
Episode 33: Status? You Just Met Us!
<p>[audio updated to fix a mixing error]<br><br>The second installment of our live taping at the British International Studies Association annual convention in Glasgow is a "Whisky Optional" roundtable on status and international-relations theory. Our guests are: <a href="https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/experts/ali-bilgic/">Ali Bilgic</a> of Loughborough University, <a href="https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=2771">Michelle Murray </a>of Bard College, <a href="https://www.rohanmukherjee.net/home">Rohan Mukherjee </a>of the London School of Economics, and <a href="https://stevenmward.wordpress.com">Steven Ward</a> of the University of Cambridge. <br><br>The taping was sponsored by the <a href="https://www.theclydeside.com">Clydeside Distillery</a>.<br><br>Related readings: Ali Bilgic, <a href="https://www.academia.edu/20182166/Turkey_Power_and_the_West_Gendered_International_Relations_and_Foreign_Policy">Turkey, Power and the West: Gendered International Relations and Foreign Policy</a>; Michelle Murray, <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/35228">The Struggle for Recognition in International Relations: Status, Revisionism, and Rising Powers</a>; Rohan Mukherjee, <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ascending-order/84A0CB01DF8092C9946E8A9455FD1E7A">Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions</a>; and Steven Ward, <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/status-and-the-challenge-of-rising-powers/DC630805EDF25A898432962982803138">Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers</a>. <br><br>Some articles mentioned include (implicitly or explicitly) include: Ward, "<a href="https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/61/4/821/4658792">Lost in Translation: Social Identity Theory and the Study of Status in World Politics</a>," Larson and Shevchenko, "<a href="https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article-abstract/34/4/63/11984/Status-Seekers-Chinese-and-Russian-Responses-to-U">Status seekers: Chinese and Russian responses to US primacy</a>," and Musgrave and Nexon, "<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/defending-hierarchy-from-the-moon-to-the-indian-ocean-symbolic-capital-and-political-dominance-in-early-modern-china-and-the-cold-war/1A48863DA2EE573CA0899DF939CCEE1D">Defending Hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic Capital and Political Dominance in Early Modern China and the Cold War</a>." <br><br>An important edited collection on status and international politics is <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/status-in-world-politics/267430979A153FC2B7CD70E257611C64">Status and World Politics</a>, eds. Paul, Larson, and Wohlforth.<br><br>The classic "chickens" article is Ivan D. Chase, "<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan-Chase/publication/237676095_Social_Process_and_Hierarchy_Formation_in_Small_Groups_A_Comparative_Perspective/links/02e7e53432551f0ab5000000/Social-Process-and-Hierarchy-Formation-in-Small-Groups-A-Comparative-Perspective.pdf">Social Process and Hierarchy Formation in Small Groups: A Comparative Perspective</a>."<br><br></p>
August 18, 2023
Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky
<p>Robert Cox's landmark article, "<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03058298810100020501">Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory</a>," appeared in the journal Millennium in 1981. Among other things, it introduced the distinction between "critical" and "problem-solving" theory to international-relations scholars. <br><br>But this isn't just any old episode where Patrick and Dan ramble their way through some decades-old academic article. No, it's the first-ever live recording of Whisky and IR Theory, which took place in Glasgow in June at the annual convention of the <a href="https://www.bisa.ac.uk">British International Studies Association</a>. And we had a sponsor: <a href="https://www.theclydeside.com">the Clydeside Distillery</a>, which generously provided everyone with drinks... and souvenir whisky glasses.<br><br>A good time was had by most. If you missed out, we'll be holding another live taping in London in October. More to come.</p>
July 17, 2023
Episode 31: Great Balls of Power
<p>Back in 2019, Uri Friedman <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/what-genesis-great-power-competition/595405/">wrote</a> that we "find ourselves—as you will have heard in the corridors of power and conference rooms of think tanks, and read in the government’s strategy documents and the media’s coverage of international relations—in an era of “great-power competition." "As Friedman noted, "great-power competition" has even" achieved hallowed acronym status—<a href="https://www.dvidshub.net/news/330977/nps-launches-campus-wide-course-great-power-competition">GPC</a>..." <br><br>It's been nearly eight years since the term took off, and international-relations theorists are only just starting to take a close look at its analytical and conceptual dimensions. In this "Whiskey Optional," <a href="https://www.eurasiagroup.net/people/awyne">Ali Wyne</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/wellesley.edu/stacie-e-goddard/home">Stacie Goddard</a>, and <a href="http://www.jondicicco.com/">Jon DiCicco</a> join Dan for a discussion of where, if at all, "GPC" fits into international-relations theory.<br><br>Works mentioned in this episode include: Ali Wynne, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Great-Power-Opportunity-Revitalizing-Competition/dp/1509545549"><em>America's Great-Power Opportunity</em></a><em> </em>(Polity, 2022); Stacie Goddard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/When-Right-Makes-Might-Security/dp/1501730304"><em>When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order</em></a><em> </em>(Cornell, 2018) & "<a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-04-06/china-russia-ukraine-international-system-outsiders">The Outsiders: How the International System Can Still Check China and Russia</a>," <em>Foreign Affairs</em> (May/June 2022); Jon DiCicco and Tudor Onea, "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.756">Great-Power Competition</a>," <em>Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies</em>, 2023; A.F.K. Organski, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/World-Politics-F-K-Organski/dp/0394304195"><em>World Politics</em></a> (Knopf, 1958); and Daniel Nexon, "<a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-02-15/against-great-power-competition">Against Great Power Competition</a>," <em>Foreign Affairs </em>(2021).</p>
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