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SIS-301 Spring 2012 lecture 3

ptj — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:10:39 +0000

The third lecture of the semester — Hobbes and the Enlightenment project.

UPDATE — there was some kind of a recording error on this version of the lecture, so it’s inaudible for about the first 25 minutes. Sigh. I don’t have the time to re-do it just at the moment so might I suggest that you listen to the older version here, and then maybe catch the last 10-15 minutes of this one which are properly audible.

SIS-301 Spring 2012 lecture 2

ptj — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:58 +0000

Lecture 2, Machiavelli. As before, best results in iTunes and QuickTime Player 7.

SIS-301 Spring 2012 lecture 1

ptj — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:12:29 +0000

Podcast lecture 1 for SIS-301, Spring 2012. Topic: Thucydides. Note that this enhanced AAC file (.m4a) has both slide images and a voice track; in my experience it plays best in QuickTime Player 7 or in iTunes. QuickTime Player 10 and other media players sometimes fail to show the slides.

SIS-301 Spring 2012 introductory class session slides and course syllabus

ptj — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:19:30 +0000

Here are the slides I used in the first class session of SIS-301 “Theories of International Politics” for Spring 2012.

Here is the course syllabus. (Note that this version is slightly modified from the one I showed in class — I added in the Electronic Communications Policy I mentioned, corrected a couple of typos, and clarified the reading assignments for three class sessions in April.)

lecturelet 13

ptj — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:13:44 +0000

The final lecturelet for SIS-301; this one’s about Naeem Inayatullah and David Blaney’s book International Relations and the Problem of Difference.

Naeem and David actually have spoken about their approach at a workshop I organized, and a recording of those remarks is available here.

lecturelet 12

ptj — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:17:39 +0000

Almost the end of the series! Here’s lecturelet 12, which is somewhat about feminism and somewhat about the broader critical-theoretical tradition that it is part of, at least or especially in IR. My subjective perception was that I talked a bit fast on a couple of these slides. Fortunately, QuickTime has options that you can … Read more →

supplemental lecturelet 2: motivation and intention

ptj — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:34:48 +0000

Based on some class and post-class comments, I decided to whip up a quick supplemental lecturelet on motivational versus intentional explanations. This kind of issue always comes up when one starts delving into constructivist theory, but I don’t think that the explanation I gave in class was sufficient . . . so here’s another attempt.

lecturelet 11

ptj — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:57:34 +0000

Still hovering around 50 minutes. Here’s the eleventh installment in the series; this lecture(let) focuses on realist constructivism, and extends/complements last week’s thoughts on liberal constructivism. One clarification: the “social construction” / “not social construction” fractal is not a replacement for the 2×2 that arranges realism, liberalism, liberal constructivism, and realist constructivism as ideal-typical combinations … Read more →

lecturelet 10

ptj — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:50:00 +0000

Looks like I am stuck on the 48-49 minute length for the moment. Here’s lecture(let) 10, on constructivism, particualrly the more liberal variety. In this lecturelet and the next one I aim to give some sense of how the constructivist turn has interacted with realist and liberal approaches; this week I spend more time on constructivism in general so that we all get the basic logic down, and next week I will talk more in detail about what I see as the realist/liberal contrast within constructivism.

lecturelet 9

ptj — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:42:23 +0000

Okay, so maybe 49 minutes is not quite a lecturelet. But it’s shorter than the previous few so-called lecturelets, so that has to count for something. Liberalism is our topic this week: both IR liberalism and the broader liberal tradition from which it (sometimes implicitly) derives.