This week, Justin Bullock talks with Greg Gause about the basics of international relations, how the US has interacted in the global arena post-WWII, and how to make sense of some of the current global conflict, particularly between the US and actors in the Middle East.

Video of this class can found here: https://youtu.be/PkVsaGPI6DM

Here are two links that Greg provided after the talk that he thought might be helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWOyze8K22I

http://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/26/one-world-rival-theories/