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IR Talk is a podcast on the history, theory, and practice of international relations. Each week, Elan Kluger, a high school student passionate about international relations interviews a historian, lawyer, ambassador, political scientist, or someone else somehow involved in international relations. Listen along for inside look into the way international relations actually works.

Latest Episodes:

S2 E5: The Global Interior with Professor Megan Black Nov 11, 2021

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Professor Megan Black is an Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

The Global Interior

William Appleman Williams

Ian Tyrell

Kurk Dorsey Bernath Lecture

S2 E4: Dual Citizenship with Professor Peter Spiro Nov 04, 2021

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Professor Peter J. Spiro is the Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. He is the author of numerous books on citizenship and international law including At Home in Two Countries, the subject of our conversation today. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

At Home in Two Countries

The New Sovereigntists: American Exceptionalism and Its False Prophets

Citizenship by Dimitry Kochenov

Morton Halperin

Charles Maier

Robert Keohane

S2 E3: The Life and Times of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. with Richard Aldous Oct 28, 2021

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Professor Richard Aldous is the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History at Bard College. Prior to that, he taught for 15 years at University College Dublin, where he was the chair of the history department. He's the author of numerous books including works on Reagan and Thatcher's relationship, a dual biography of Disraeli and Gladstone and the subject of our conversation Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian

Journals: 1952-2000

The Age of Jackson

Orestes Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress

The Age of Roosevelt

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Perils of the Court Historian

Patrick Geoghegan

The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo

The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire

A Question of Leadership

S2 E2: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Henry Adams with Professor David Brown Oct 21, 2021

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Professor David Brown is the Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College. The following books and people are pertinent to this episode:

Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography

The Idea of the Two Party System

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

Everyman His Own Historian

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams

The History of United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

The Education of Henry Adams

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres

The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma

The Law of Civilization and Decay

James Finley

S2 E1: Scientific History and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. with Professor Luke Nichter Oct 14, 2021

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Professor Luke Nichter is a Professor of History and James H. Cavanaugh Endowed Chair in Presidential Studies at Chapman University. The following books and articles are pertinent to this episode:

The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War

White House Years by Henry Kissinger

IR Talk Episode with Professor Thomas Schwartz

Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World

Season 2 Trailer Oct 07, 2021

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Ep. 8 Season Finale Jul 29, 2021

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This is the final of season 1. Make sure to leave a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts and see you in mid August 2021 for the beginning of season 2.

Ep. 7 History, George Kennan, and Grand Strategy with Professor John Lewis Gaddis Jul 22, 2021

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Professor John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett chair of Naval and Military History at Yale University. He has received the Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Humanities Medal. The following are his books and articles mentioned and alluded to in the podcast:

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

George F. Kennan: An American Life

On Grand Strategy

Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

The United States and the Origins of the Cold War 1941-1947

Expanding the Data Base: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Enrichment of Security Studies

The Long Peace: Elements of Stability in the Postwar International System

International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War

Ep. 6 The History and Politics of Trade with Dr. William Bernstein Jul 08, 2021

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Dr. William Bernstein is a trained neurologist and writes and advises on finance. He is the author of numerous books including A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World which is the subject of our conversation.

Ep. 5 The Life of Henry Kissinger with Professor Thomas A. Schwartz Jun 24, 2021

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Professor Thomas A. Schwartz is a distinguished professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He also holds appointments as professor of political science and professor of European studies at that institution. He is the author most recently of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography, which is the subject of our conversation.

For further information on Henry Kissinger see this Encyclopedia Britannica entry: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Kissinger

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