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SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 13

ptj — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:47:37 +0000

The final podcast lecture in my Spring 2012 SIS-301 “Theories of International Politics” class — and the last podcast of the last time I will teach this class for a while, since I become Associate Dean in a couple of months ad that’s a full-time administrative gig. So, perhaps fitting that the topic of this last podcast lecture is Naeem Inayatullah and David Blaney’s radical reexamination of IR as an enterprise, which raises some fundamental questions about the purpose of IR theory and IR scholarship. Is it science? Is it philosophy? Does it matter? Questions to ponder.

SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 12

ptj — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:22:34 +0000

The twelfth lecture in the series: theory and methodology, or, why we have to know something about methodology in order to figure out what is actually going on in a piece of theory.

SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 11

ptj — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:41:17 +0000

The eleventh in the ongoing series. This week, relational theory: boundary processes and sovereign practices, especially the formation of identities.

ISA 2012: The Constructivism That Wasn’t

ptj — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:33:42 +0000

Audio of my remarks at the panel “Telling the Tale of Constructivism” at ISA 2012. An edited version of the text I spoke from and around will soon be a blog post over at Duck of Minerva.

ISA 2012: Social Technologies of Protest

ptj — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:31:25 +0000

Unfortunately this recording only contains my discussant comments, and neither of the musical performances by two of the panelists. Nor does it contain my singing of a verse of The Doors’ “The End” to close out the festivities. Guess you had to be there.

ISA 2012: Alkerian IR

ptj — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:27:00 +0000

My comments on the ISA-2012 panel on Alkerian IR. Recorded direct to iPad, so the quality is not as good as it is when I remember to bring my dedicated digital recorder with me.

SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 10

ptj — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:22:26 +0000

The tenth lecture for this semester’s rendition of SIS-301: systems, structures, and what it means to think about theoretical explanations of world politics that don’t place individuals and their decisions at the center.

SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 9

ptj — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:39:47 +0000

The ninth lecture for SIS-301: contemporary mainstream US IR theory, realism/liberalism/constructivism. And their fundamental similarity as different hypotheses — reductionist hypotheses — about state behavior.

SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 8

ptj — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:44:54 +0000

Lecture 8 for SIS-301 Theories of International Politics. This week’s topic: E. H. Carr, and the rise of social science disciplines as a way of organizing knowledge.

Yes, these lectures are getting longer. I hope to stop that precedent next week, and try to curb my enthusiasm a bit.

SIS 301 Spring 2012 lecture 7

ptj — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:32:48 +0000

Lecture 7, for your listening enjoyment: Hegel, historical dialectics, and the progress of reason. A little longer than usual, because there was a lot to say.