Thinking Global Podcast – David Anderson (Part Two)
David Anderson speaks about using Judith Shklar’s thought in International Relations, a duty to civil disobedience, transnationalism, cruelty, and more.
Thinking Global Podcast – Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner speaks about understanding the work of Hobbes and Machiavelli, contextualism, political theory, global politics, and more.
Thinking Global Podcast – Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown talks about their new book ‘Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber’, Nihilism as political condition, Walling, Resisting Left Melancholy and Neoliberalism.
The ‘Erasure of Nationalism’ and International Relations
Nationalism has been fundamental in structuring the international system, and continues to change and transform it today.
Review – Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction
This book offers an audacious and detailed tour de force of the colonial and racial underpinnings of political science.
Adorno on Late Modernity and Unfreedom: Reflections in a Global Era
Adorno further alerts us to the threat that Fascism might reappear in novel historical forms. If he is right, all contemporary societies in late modernity contain fascist elements in one form or another.
Review – Pluralist Democracy in International Relations
Holthaus explores the work of three British thinkers, Hobhouse, Cole, and Mitrany, and highlights their relevance to today’s democracies.
Re-Worlding China: Notorious Tianxia, Critical Relationality
China’s compliance as gift-giving is testing how ready the Western IR is to deny an intensively mutually constituted China as sheer stranger.
Constant Crisis and Political Byzantinism
The politics that deals with multifaceted crises was limited to restrictive policies operating behind a rhetoric that one could acknowledge as political Byzantinism.
Review – The Politics of Compassion
This fascinating book is a major contribution to understanding the politics of humanitarianism and citizens’ agency in the current international neo-liberal global order.
