Web links: Theories of world politics

Blogs

http://www.theory-talks.org/
Theory Talks is an interactive forum for discussion of debates in International Relations with an emphasis on the underlying theoretical issues. By frequently inviting cutting-edge specialists in the field to elucidate their work and to explain current developments both in IR theory and real-world politics, Theory Talks aims to offer both scholars and students a comprehensive view of the field and its most important protagonists

Audio

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Politics/Political-Philosophy/The-Prince/21772
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Politics/Political-Philosophy/The-Communist-Manifesto/22023
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Politics/Political-Philosophy/The-Second-Treatise-on-Government/31462
The Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Politics/Political-Philosophy/Leviathan-Books-I-and-II/34917
Leviathan, Books I and II by Thomas Hobbes

http://www.mmisi.org/mp3/lectures/kurth103001.mp3
Conflicts in Liberalism and Security Issues

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Politics/Political-Philosophy/Perpetual-Peace/35024
Perpetual Peace by Immanuel Kant

http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/audio/data/000407
David Rodin explores the logic governing how rights may be lost, acquired, and transferred-how they "move"-and the implications this has for how we justify and prosecute war.

Video

http://essentialsharingdocs.blogspot.com/2010/03/video-immanuel-wallerstein-in-helsinki.html
Immanuel Wallerstein: The chaotic state of the world system

http://videolectures.net/yaleplsc114f06_smith_lec11/
New Modes and Orders: Machiavelli, The Prince (chaps. 13-26) Steven B. Smith, Department of Political Science, Yale University

http://videolectures.net/mitworld_ramos_horta_cinb/
Challenges in Nation Building (José Ramos-Horta), MIT.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CEEChannel#p/c/EE07FBE98E6A3E5D/0/1mSSnL5y1gE
Dr. Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford College and CEE's Executive Director, presents a series of lectures on the philosophy of education. In Part 7, Dr. Hicks covers the last of the seven "isms" - Postmodernism. In this section, he explains the philosophy of Postmodernism. The fact that he focuses on education should not deter us, as fundamental concepts are just as viable in political science

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw9J3bzzW0A
Realism and neo-realism as a music video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yQITXWgd8k
Constructivism - a mini-lecture part 1 - other parts found at the site

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26o22Y33h9s&feature=player_embedded
Radical sociologist David Harvey asks: is it time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5foxGFXNl-s
Conversations with History: Robert O. Keohane discusses Theory and International Institutions"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=s3Hlqh6pxXs
Conversations with History: Anatol Lieven discusses "Ethical Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AKFamUu6dGw
Conversations with History: John Mearsheimer discusses "Through the Realist Lens,"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PeaFWKUzxbI
Conversations with History: Joseph S. Nye, Jr discusses "Theory and Practice in International Relations"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=F9eV5gPlPZg
Conversations with History: Kenneth Waltz discusses "Theory and International Politics"

Journal articles

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http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ip/journal/v47/n2/abs/ip20101a.html
The neoliberal moment: Communicative interaction and a discursive analysis of the global political economy from International Politics (2010) 47

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=440693&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S02602105060070541
The postcolonial moment in security studies from Review of International Studies (2006), 32:2

http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/103/410/23?ijkey=Tchu0vlIrOQ1k&keytype=ref&siteid=afrafj
Crawford Young, "The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics," African Affairs 103:23-49 (2004)

http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/105/418/27?ijkey=59O.iZA1IBBYI&keytype=ref&siteid=afrafj
Richard Fanthorpe, "On the limits of liberal peace: Chiefs and democratic decentralization in post-war Sierra Leone," African Affairs 2006 105(418):27-49.

http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/105/420/399?ijkey=Qit8BXM9U9MnQ&keytype=ref&siteid=afrafj
Jim Igoe, "Becoming indigenous peoples: Difference, inequality, and the globalization of East African identity politics," African Affairs 2006 105(420):399-420

http://irap.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/7/3/285?ijkey=VIUlPsCu6kFf.&keytype=ref&siteid=irap
Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan, "Why is there no non-Western international relations theory? An introduction," International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2007 7(3):287-312.

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