Ranked #1
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... Read more
17 Jul 2023
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1hr 56mins
Ranked #2
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 'ga... Read more
18 May 2023
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #3
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... Read more
21 Apr 2023
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50mins
Ranked #4
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. We... Read more
11 Mar 2023
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2hr 38mins
Ranked #5
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... Read more
29 Jan 2023
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1hr 57mins
Ranked #6
Episode 26: Anarchy vs. The Anarchy
Episode 26: Anarchy vs. The Anarchy
The University of Chicago's Paul Poast claims that G. Lowes Dickinson was the OG "modern" theorist of international rela... Read more
11 Oct 2022
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1hr 31mins
Ranked #7
Episode 25: The New Hierarchy Studies
Episode 25: The New Hierarchy Studies
Scholars of international relations don't agree on much, but they at least agree that anarchy (the lack of a common auth... Read more
9 Aug 2022
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1hr 26mins
Ranked #8
Episode 24: International Relations in China
Episode 24: International Relations in China
What is the topography of international-relations theory in the People's Republic of China? What is the "Chinese School ... Read more
20 Jun 2022
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1hr 32mins
Ranked #9
Episode 23: Being Academic and Pandemic Time
Episode 23: Being Academic and Pandemic Time
In this “Whiskey Optional” episode, PTJ facilitates a conversation among four colleagues from different countries and di... Read more
19 Apr 2022
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1hr 33mins
Ranked #10
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., ... Read more
8 Mar 2022
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2hr 4mins