Danny and Derek welcome Jonathan Kirshner, professor of political science and international studies at Boston College, to discuss his book An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics. They touch on structural realism/neorealism, the importance of classical realism, Mearsheimer, Thucydides, and more.
Mentioned Dostoyevsky at about 18 minutes left. Dostoyevsky has very interesting political positions but I missed his anti-imperial thread. What specifically are you guys thinking of there?
And I like the hypothetical discussion re: if Germany went communist and Russian Civil War ended up with a right wing regime beating the communists. I think this helps simplify the whole foreign policy discussion re realism/structuralism. The only real foreign policy is anti-communism by oligarch run nation states.
Mentioned Dostoyevsky at about 18 minutes left. Dostoyevsky has very interesting political positions but I missed his anti-imperial thread. What specifically are you guys thinking of there?
And I like the hypothetical discussion re: if Germany went communist and Russian Civil War ended up with a right wing regime beating the communists. I think this helps simplify the whole foreign policy discussion re realism/structuralism. The only real foreign policy is anti-communism by oligarch run nation states.
Military Industrial Complex has political power but can't set a political agenda lol ok Danny