Episode 16: Promises, Promises
Update: 2021-03-26
Description
Patrick and Dan continue their nostalgic tour of 1990s international-relations theory and spend some time with John J. Mearsheimer's 1994 article "The False Promise of International Institutions."
This episode runs over two hours, so you can always skip to: biographical material and the whisky selection (13:40 ); framing of the article (26:55 ); the article begins (33:50 ); realism according to Mearsheimer (53:00 ); the article's criticisms of liberal institutionalism (1:24:30 ), "collective security" (1:41:30 ), and "critical theory" (1:45:40 ); or some concluding remarks (~2:03:30 ).
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