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Episodes
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Tuesday May 18, 2021
On liberal idealism and imperial overreach.
Why did the winners of the Cold War turn 'revisionist', undermining their own order? How has utopianism come to dominate the discipline of IR, such that we have lost the means to critique power?
We discuss Philip's recent book, The New Twenty Years’ Crisis 1999-2019: A Critique of International Relations, which is both a revisiting of EH Carr's international relations classic The Twenty Years' Crisis as well as an account of the contemporary crisis of the liberal international order.
Reading:
The New Twenty Years’ Crisis 1999-2019: A Critique of International Relations, Philip Cunliffe, McGill-Queen's UP
4 years ago
Or did Forever War begin with 1990 Iraq 1?
4 years ago
Should have more accurately said 1999-2017 (Trump)
4 years ago
CRISIS in 1999 not even close to 1919. Where is the Global War?
4 years ago
Hello Kitty, Star Wars has nothing to do with IR, just International Appeal of some local products distributed to Global Market (Economics)
4 years ago
Uni-Polar Globalization of late 1990s not very different from 18th-19th Century British Empire? Civilizing same as Liberalism
4 years ago
Is Catalan Independence International or National Relations?
4 years ago
I Quibble. We're heading to WwIi again? But Chaos is not economic-suffering driven. 1970s-2016.Neo Liberalism? Not so true in U.S. with 12 years of Reagan/Bush, 8 Bush Jr Isn't Liberalism dead with USSR 1919? Neo Liberalism a misnomer for State Socialism of 1930s. 1919 crisis was result of World Suicide, as Napoleon of 1812 National Socialism 25 points in 1920 was realistic. Discarded. Even Jewish Question was seen as realistic IR is alive & well including Crisis Management. Ess