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Taking this class as a freshman so I just wanted to get a better understanding before the class starts in August thank you very much

How was east German a communist state? Thats per definition not possible

Keep uploading more about IR. You will go a long way lad.

Thank you so much for the lectures, I just love them all!!

32:00 Here's how realists would deal with Greta Thunberg: she was useful to someone who had actual power to create and push a narrative, and that/those actor(s) used her for their own ends as long as she was useful.

shout-out to the cat! :D

I love this course. Dr Patrick 👏🏼

Bin ich der einzige der nur ein Rauschen hört und sonst keinen Ton?

This lecture is a good example of how Marxists (the lecturer is almost certainly a Marxist despite his denial) are utterly incapable of engaging with their own ideology from an objective, detached perspective and instead are compelled to proselytize their ideology. Their thinking is so mired in their own worldview and they are so committed to it being "the truth" that they seem incapable of imagining that it might be wrong or looking at the world from a different framework or perspective. This makes perfect sense when one considers that Marxism is as much a quasi-religion (be sure to make pilgrimage to St. Rosa's memorial in Berlin) as it is a political theory.

Warum heißt das neoliberal? Was hat das mit Neoliberalismus zu tun bzw. wie ist das gemeint? Würde behaupten, dass z.B. Thatcher und Reagan neoliberal waren, aber außenpolitische eher (Neo-)realistisch

Be more proactive and get involve in your community, local level politics. If you want to not be poverty of mind, body and sprits, get involved.

WOWW FINALLY I FIND UR CHANNEL. My lecture doesn't explain like this, and this is very helpful for me I'm from Indonesia Sir Nice to see you in every explanation very helpful like IR student like me ☺☺

you basically recapped in one video what I've been studying for a year as an IR student.

welche Ordnung wäre denn jetzt für den Realisten am sichersten?

oui, merci infiniment .

oui, merci infiniment je t´reviendra sur ce video.

Are there any recommended books to read

Are there any recommended books to read

Quick comment - as far as I know, Italy uses MMM, not MMP

@PatrickTheiner What do you think about this? -> I think what needs to happen is for the UN to get every country to demilitarize (starting with the US, China, and Russia). Obviously the first thought that comes to everyones mind is "Impossible", a state would never give up it's security sovereignty. But every state in the world already has by recognizing the UN (which the USA was the main contributor of). Also it's the ONLY way I see to have the closest thing to world peace. We will never have zero conflicts, there will always be that group with guns doing their thing, but that's when we send the UN. This way militaries do not need Nuclear weapons, tanks, submarines, fighter jets, navy ships etc. Of course there is also the question of new technologies pertaining to the internet (satellites, computer malware, etc) but essentially, the ICJ would be given slightly more power allowing them to trial any person for war crimes (including the leaders) if they attack any group of people for ANY reason.

Thanks!

Du hast so gut englisch gesprochen, hätte nicht gedacht das du zuerst deutsch kannst.

Saludos desde México, una excelente contribución, estoy estudiando Planeación Territorial y genuinamente me respondiste muchas dudas Lo veo como una analogia de las relaciones multifaseticas humanas, obiamente a escalalas mucho más grandes y complejas, muchas gracias por el contenido!

This video was so helpful and explains the critique of America as a white supremacy culture. I understand that the UN critical theorists subjected Western countries to its critique for one purpose only, to segway culture to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which is aligned to socialism and communism, focused on collectivism. I always knew this is why American children were segregated into Affinity spaces and labeled as oppressors and the oppressed. Literally public schools are brainwashing children to be activists.

Thank you a lot. Really learned a lot.

Thank you, Professor.

Did he say "shit you can touch"?

The most ridiculous tenet of Mearsheimer's Neorealism is #4: states are unitary, rational actors. Rather, elite factions regularly compromise the interests of their states for their own interests! Examples: Bush 2 & Neocons; Shareef in Pakistan; Maduro in Venezuela; Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia, who volunteered his democratic country of 120 million to be landlocked by a dictatorship of 5 million next door, crippling the larger state's economy to this day! Many European leaders caving to US demands on energy, trade, & alliances contrary to their own states' interests. Examples of this type in fact outweigh those of leaders who act in the interest of the state they lead, and far and few between indeed are leaders who act in the interest of the majority of their citizens. Such tenet is so obviously incorrect!

Apparently, my long-held position that there never was a "unipolar moment" is associated with Constructivist IR theorists from the 1990s. To me it is a rather simple, example-rich, obvious notion that there were valences of influence and obvious boundaries of reach of the US all throughout the "unipolar" period. That is why the US began easing its interventionist grip on Latin America starting in the 90s and doubling down on the mid-east, central asia, and expanding NATO in Europe. All 3 of these shifts were directed at Russia & China: to hem in the world island, all while steering China in a more capitalist direction. At no time since WW2 has the US ever been willing to directly compromise the territory of a nuclear state, except in Pakistan where the security apparatus was secretly in league with the US in contrast to the official stance of the govt. vis-a-vis drone strikes, etc. At every point in the "unipolar moment," where the herding operations into the neoliberal multilateral economic/trade groups were at their strongest, giant exceptions had to be carved out to accomodate the power realities of different collaborators, foes, or allies of the US. For example, China was given a free pass on its joint venture laws, currency manipulation, SOEs, industrial policy, etc., because the gains for financial elites in the rest of the developed world (Europe, Japan, S.Korea, etc.) would allow the US to gain maximum influence over their economic futures and developments, as the actor with the greatest scale in the OECD. Effectively, there has never been a unipolar moment and there are too many examples in support of this truth to enumerate.

Super

this is the best explainer I've come across, thank you.

Thanks Doc! ❤

Capitalism seems like a micro version of communism with less risk of totalitarianism

Brilliant!

Kautilya is far ahead in sharing his ideas on statecraft...he gave his theory much ahead of Machiavelli....and he is paradoxically touted as Indian Machiavelli😶..... This is all glorifying the west ..🥱

2 minutes in and I think I’m ready to lead the country in foreign policy

learned

really learned a lot from you

goooooooood video~!

I need this presentation text Please?

vielen Dank für den Vortrag!

"Promosm" 😘

Warum denke ich jetzt ,an Gödells Unvollständigkeits Satz

Hey. So I don’t know if I am the only one but the video clips you play in your videos are not visible but blurred out (probably by youtube copyright). Could you just add links of those videos either in the footnotes or attach a hyperlink sticker when the video is playing. At first I spent a lot of time trying to find the same video by your description (and audio) because I could only hear the audio but not see the actual video and then I realized that when you finish the video it shows the youtube title for less than a second. However it would be way easier if there was a link reference to the video. Thanks!

U can also include the Punic wars, wherein Carthage was a naval/trading power, while Rome was a land/militaristic power

Had a seminary on the imperialism of the roman republic. I was shocked to find out that the overwhelming majority of historians of antiquity view the rise of the roman empire in (neo)realist terms and it is the most accepted explanation for it (according to my professor at least). Great lecture!

I am confused about the (9:13) statement of some states “reverting their earlier democratic attempts and turn to authoritarian state constitutions” - especially regarding Baltic states and Soviet satellite states. They were occupied and forcefully “turned”, involuntarily losing their short-lived independence and democratic political system.

Really thankful for having such great content for free!

8:10 - I'm not sure if that is entirely true that USSR disintegrated without a war. Didn't that happen after they lost the Afghan war?

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