Episode 22: So a Deputy Foreign Minister and an Academic Realist Walk into a Bar

Episode 22: So a Deputy Foreign Minister and an Academic Realist Walk into a Bar

In 2014, John Mearsheimer authored a Foreign Affairs article in which he blamed that year's Ukraine crisis on the U.S., NATO, and the EU. The next year he gave a talk on the subject which the University of Chicago uploaded to YouTube.

Last week the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs used excerpts from Mearsheimer's article and talk as part of its efforts to propagandize in favor of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Isaac Chotiner subsequently interviewed Mearsheimer for the New Yorker.

For some reason, Patrick and Dan thought it would be a good thing to record an impromptu podcast on the controversy – and to down more whisky than usual during the process. We've managed to cut the discussion down to two hours, but it's not, shall we say, the most organized episode we've done.

Topics include specific aspects of Mearsheimer's argument, the importance of skepticism about what government officials tell you, and how academics should present their arguments when engaging in public-facing scholarship. Caveat emptor.

Note that this is a corrected version of the original podcast. Dan inaccurately characterized two aspects of the talk. He's added a mea culpa at the start of the episode and edited the discussion accordingly.

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Episode 1: Gates of the West

Episode 1: Gates of the West

We're baaack!In the inaugural episode of the second season of Whiskey and International Relations Theory, PTJ and Dan discuss Samuel Huntington's (in)famous 1996 book, The Clash of Civilizations and t...

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Episode 33: Status? You Just Met Us!

Episode 33: Status? You Just Met Us!

[audio updated to fix a mixing error]The second installment of our live taping at the British International Studies Association annual convention in Glasgow is a "Whisky Optional" roundtable on status...

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Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky

Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky

Robert Cox's landmark article, "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory," appeared in the journal Millennium in 1981. Among other things, it introduced the distin...

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Episode 31: Great Balls of Power

Episode 31: Great Balls of Power

Back in 2019, Uri Friedman wrote 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 m...

17 Jul 20231h 56min

Episode 30: A Long, Strange Trek

Episode 30: A Long, Strange Trek

It's our first "actual" installment of Whiskey & IR Theory in Space! We discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation's 'gay rights' episode, "The Outcast," which Dan uses to introduce his students to differ...

18 Mai 20231h 25min

Episode 29: Introducing: Whiskey & IR Theory... in Space!

Episode 29: Introducing: Whiskey & IR Theory... in Space!

Patrick and Dan talk about the newest feature of the podcast: a series in which they combine their long-running seminars on (international) politics and science fiction.In each episode of "Whiskey & I...

21 Apr 202350min

Episode 28: Are We Living in a Simulation... of Sovereignty?

Episode 28: Are We Living in a Simulation... of Sovereignty?

PTJ and Dan discuss Cynthia Weber's 1994 book, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State and Symbolic Exchange. Weber examines "the justifications for intervention offered by the Concert of Euro...

11 Mar 20232h 38min

Episode 27: Everything is Relational

Episode 27: Everything is Relational

It's a nostalgia episode for our two hosts, Patrick and Dan.They tackle Mustafa Emirbayer's 1997 article in the American Journal of Sociology, "Manifesto for a Relational Sociology." According to Emir...

29 Jan 20231h 57min

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