WATCHING THE STALWARTS IN CONVERSATION


If you like to view conversations then there are some videos with Robert Keohane, Kenneth Waltz, John Mearshiemer, Dr. Shashi Tharoor which are all part of UC Berkeley’s videos in a series called “Conversations with History”. The IR field has its own peculiarities and one such is Professor Alexander Wendt who is a leading scholar and does research on UFOs.

Other include, Stephen Walt, John Mearshiemer & Stephen Walt, Vali Nasr an Iranian-American academic, philosopher Martha Nussbaum and her teacher Professor Amartya Sen. 

Others include John Kenneth Galbraith, Edward Luttwak a pre-eminent scholar on China, Joseph Nye scholar who articulated the concept of soft power, Robert Jervis whose work on nuclear politics is very important.

The full list of over 100 conversations is compiled here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeYsBp2DPaHWTmtc22Y8kVEMVUcs_OTKa


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