Ep. 126 — Do States Act Rationally?
November 22, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato about How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. Starting with a… READ MORE
Tag: international relations
It’s Not Deglobalization, It’s Regionalization
October 26, 2023
Shannon K. O’Neil— Decoupling and derisking, deglobalization, slowbalization, and localization. Journalists, columnists, and more than a few authors are touting the end of an era of hyperglobalization characterized by open… READ MORE
Migration and the End of Empire
October 5, 2023
Peter Heather — However you line up the different factors involved, there’s no doubt that immigration played a major role in the unraveling of the western half of the Roman… READ MORE
The Last Shah
May 13, 2021
Ray Takeyh— Why did Iran have a revolution in 1979? The immediate causes can be easily summarized: The economic recession of the mid-1970s had halted the shah’s development projects and… READ MORE
Djibouti: the Great Power Frontier
November 12, 2020
Geoffrey F. Gresh— During a recent trip to Djibouti, I was invited to a luncheon following a lecture I delivered on the western Indian Ocean at the International Maritime Organization’s… READ MORE
Cultural Exchanges and Trans-Atlantic Bonds: African Music and the Evolution of Blues and Jazz
October 21, 2020
Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku— The subject of Black music and its African cultural roots is arguably one of the most engaging topics in contemporary Africana studies, cultural anthropology,… READ MORE
International Relations at the Field of Cloth of Gold
July 20, 2020
Glenn Richardson— That the Field of Cloth of Gold did not bring in its wake a universal peace of Christendom to match the high-flown rhetoric of the occasion does not… READ MORE
Why Income Inequality Matters for Global Growth and Trade
June 11, 2020
Matthew C. Klein— The distribution of income has macroeconomic consequences. Under certain conditions, income concentration (rising inequality) can make society as a whole more prosperous. Other times, such as in… READ MORE
Multilateralism in Global Health
April 17, 2020
Kathryn C. Lavelle— The political boundaries that humans construct rarely confine disease. Thus, medicine is humanity’s most transnational endeavor. To understand systems of coordinating relations across states in accordance with… READ MORE
Lessons from the Civil War for America’s Fractured Present: Part Two
January 28, 2020
Timothy William Waters— Why Remembering the Civil War Matters: Talking about Belonging in America How we remember the Civil War matters for thinking about our increasingly fragile union today—how we… READ MORE
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