IR Talk

Elan Kluger

IR Talk is a podcast on the history, theory, and practice of international relations. Each week, Elan Kluger, a high school student passionate about international relations interviews a historian, lawyer, ambassador, political scientist, or someone else somehow involved in international relations. Listen along for inside look into the way international relations actually works.

  1. 04/21/2022

    S2 E15: Bonus Episode - Henry Kissinger with Professor Jeremi Suri

    Professor Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books including Henry Kissinger and the American Century, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office and many other excellent works. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today: Henry Kissinger and the American Century The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama

    46 min

  2. 04/14/2022

    S2 E14: Bonus Episode - Israel's Moment with Professor Jeffrey Herf

    Note: This episode was recorded on March 3, 2022 so any reference to political events are from that time.  Professor Jeffrey is distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of numerous books on Germany as well as Israel, including Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989, and his latest Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945-1949 which was published on April 14th, the release date of this episode. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today: Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 Putin’s Continuities: From ‘Israelis as Nazis’ to ‘Denazifying’ Ukraine (Times of Israel) Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967–1989

    53 min

  3. 03/03/2022 · BONUS

    S2 E13: Bonus Episode - The uses of history with Professor Daniel Sargent

    Professor Sargent is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds a dual appointment with the history department and the Goldman School of Public Policy. Professor Sargent is the author of the brilliant A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today: Forum on the Importance of the Scholarship of Ernest May A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s Pax Americana: Sketches for an Undiplomatic History Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition The Origins of Alliances Rebecca Herman

    54 min

  4. 02/17/2022 · BONUS

    S2 E12: Bonus Episode - The End of Ambition with Professor Mark Atwood Lawrence

    Professor Lawrence is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, as well an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of numerous books including The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era which is the subject of our conversation this week. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today: The End of Ambition The Vietnam War: A Concise International History Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam Mission Intolerable: Harrison Salisbury's Trip to Hanoi and the Limits of Dissent against the Vietnam War Too Late or Too Soon? Debating the Withdrawal from Vietnam in the Age of Iraq

    45 min

  5. 01/13/2022

    S2 E11: Season 2 Finale

    This is the finale for Season 2 of IR Talk. Tune in for every answer to the question of "Did Athenians Students in the time of the Peloponnesian War know more than current students?"  Make sure to look out for a few bonus episodes that will be released during the next few weeks!

    31 min

  6. 01/06/2022

    S2 E10: German-Israeli Relations 1949-1969 with Professor Lorena De Vita

    Professor Lorena De Vita is an Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations at the University of Utrecht. She is the author of Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations, 1949-1969. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:  Israelpolitik: German–Israeli Relations, 1949-69 New Bottles for New Wine: A Pericentric Framework for the Study of the Cold War Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice  After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present Jena Center for 20th Century History The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History

    37 min

  7. 12/16/2021

    S2 E9: Economic Diplomacy and International Adoption with Dr. Diane Kunz

    Dr. Diane Kunz is the Executive Director of the Center for Adoption Policy. She has also taught diplomatic history at Yale, Columbia, and Duke. Prior to her diplomatic history work, Dr. Kunz was a corporate lawyer, working at White & Case and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. She is the author of numerous books including Butter and Guns: The Economic Diplomacy of the Cold War and a forthcoming work on the diplomatic, economic, and social history of US international adoption. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today: Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Economic Diplomacy The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis The Battle for Britain's Gold Standard in 1931 Center for Adoption Policy Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building

    48 min

  8. 12/09/2021

    S2 E8: James & Sarah Polk and the Mexican-American War with Professor Amy Greenberg

    Professor Amy Greenberg is the George Winfree Professor of History and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of numerous books including A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico and Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation: Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico James K. Polk, Vol. 1: Jacksonian, 1795-1843 James K. Polk, Volume II: Continentalist, 1843-1846 Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 Met His Every Goal? James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny

    34 min
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IR Talk is a podcast on the history, theory, and practice of international relations. Each week, Elan Kluger, a high school student passionate about international relations interviews a historian, lawyer, ambassador, political scientist, or someone else somehow involved in international relations. Listen along for inside look into the way international relations actually works.

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  • Creator
    Elan Kluger
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Elan Kluger
  • Show Website
    IR Talk