Michael Di Gregorio (McMaster): Aristotle's Political Psychology: Rhetoric, Affect, and International Relations. Juan Fernando Palacio (St. Gallen): Was Geopolitics Born 60 Years Before Mahan and Mackinder? The Forgotten Contribution of Friedrich List. Stephen Turner (USF): Weber's Foray into Geopolitics. Carsten Rauch and Iris Wurm (Frankfurt): “From Disharmony to Harmony”: A Typology of Great Power Concerts. Stephan M. Haggard (UCSD): Liberal Pessimism: International Relations Theory and the Emerging Powers. From Duck of Minerva, a symposium on The End of IR Theory. A.C. McKeil on international relations as historical political theory. Why do policy makers hate international relations scholarship? Henry Farrell investigates. David Armitage on his book The Foundations of Modern International Thought. Dangerous neighborhoods: Doug Gibler and Alex Braithwaite on why the “Democratic Peace” may have more to do with geography than democracy. You can download The Clash of Civilizations Twenty Years On, ed. J. Paul Barker. From Theory Talks, an interview with Siba Grovogui on IR as theology, reading Kant badly, and the incapacity of Western political theory to travel very far in non-Western contexts; and an interview with Pinar Bilgin on non-Western IR, hybridity, and the one-toothed monster called civilization. Stephanie Carvin on the seven deadly sins of foreign policy: Lust, sloth, and wrath are even worse when states do them — right, Machiavelli? The Fox and the Hedgehog: Randy Borum on contrasting approaches to anticipating the environment.
