The RWO team sat down for a conversation with Matias Spektor. Matias is a Professor at the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil. He is one of the leading IR scholars of the Global South and his work has appeared in leading outlets including Nature Communications, the Journal of Global Security Studies, and the Journal of Peace Research, amongst other reputable places. We spoke to Matias about his intellectual journey, his current projects, and his advice for budding scholars of international relations.

This was a really fun episode to record and we hope it is equally as fun to listen to.

We thank the Princeton Broadcast Center and our audio engineer, Alex Brownstein, and our editor, Jake Bowne, for helping produce this episode.

The RWO team sat down for an interview with Andrew Hurrell. Andy was the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society (2007), and has published leading articles and edited volumes on all the big topics in International Relations. We hope you enjoy listening to the episode as much as we enjoyed recording it!

We thank the Princeton Broadcast Center and our audio engineer, Alex Brownstein, and our editor, Jake Bowne, for helping produce this episode.

The RWO team sat down for a conversation with Ayşe Zarakol. Ayşe is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. Ayse is the author or editor of a range of pathbreaking award winning books, including After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (Cambridge, 2010) , the volume Hierarchy in World Politics (Cambridge, 2017), and more recently Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (Cambridge, 2022).

We thank the Princeton Broadcast Center and our audio engineer, Alex Brownstein, and our editor, Jake Bowne, for helping produce this episode.

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This interview was recorded on December 5, 2024.

The intro song is called 'Jazz Mood' from Soundstreet's free podcast introduction playlist.

Join the Reimagining World Order (RWO) team at Princeton University for an interview with Daniel Nexon. Dan is a Professor at Georgetown University and is the author of "The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton University Press, 2009) and more recently, "Exit From Hegemony" (Oxford University Press, 2020) with Alex Cooley. In the interview, we discuss Dan's intellectual journey, his research, and his takes on the current state of international order.

We thank the Princeton Broadcast Center and our audio engineer, Alex Brownstein, for helping produce this episode.

For more information about RWO, please visit our website: rwo.princeton.edu.

This interview was recorded on September 11, 2023.

The intro song is called 'Jazz Mood' from Soundstreet's free podcast introduction playlist.

Join Tolya Levshin and the Reimagining World Order (RWO) community at Princeton University for an interview with Joshua Cherniss, a political theorist whose research centers on the history of political thought in the twentieth century, political ethics, and liberalism. Joshua is the author of "A Mind and its Time: The Development of Isaiah Berlin's Political Thought" (Oxford University Press, 2013) and "Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century" (Princeton University Press, 2021), and co-editor of "The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin". He has taught at Yale, Harvard, and Smith College, and is now Associate Professor, and Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.

You can purchase Joshua's latest book, "Liberalism in Dark Times", on Amazon and in many bookstores across the nation.

We thank the Princeton Broadcast Center and our audio engineer, Daniel J. Kearns, for producing this episode.

Follow the links to learn more about Tolya and the RWO Community at Princeton.

The interview was recorded on March 12, 2022.

The podcast features the track "Do You Trust This" by Howard Harper-Barnes, from Epidemic Sound.

Join Tolya Levshin, John Ikenberry, and Chika Tonooka for an interview with Christian Reus-Smit.

Christian Reus-Smit is a professor at the University of Queensland and a prominent scholar of International Relations. He is a leading figure in the theoretical traditions of constructivism and the English School. He is the author of many articles and books, including "The Moral Purpose of the State", "Individual Rights and the Making of the International System", "On Culture", and, most recently, "Culture and Diversity".

We thank the Princeton Broadcast Center and our audio engineer, Daniel J. Kearns, for producing this episode.

Follow the links to learn more about Chris, Tolya, John, Chika, and the RWO Community at Princeton.

The interview was recorded on September 2, 2021.

The podcast features the track "Do You Trust This" by Howard Harper-Barnes, from Epidemic Sound.

Join Tolya, John, and Chika for this comprehensive interview with Daniel Deudney. 

Daniel Deudney is an associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and author of numerous articles and award-winning books, including "Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village" and "Dark Skies: Space Expansion and Planetary Geopolitics". He is currently working on two new books, "Pax Atomica: Geopolitics, Arms Control and Limited Government" and "Home Rules: Planetary Geopolitics and Terrapolitan Republicanism". Beyond academia, Daniel has also worked in various thinktanks in Washington, DC, including serving as a Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute in the early 1980s and as a senior research fellow at the TransAtlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund in 2010. He's one of the world's leading thinkers on geopolitics and republican thought. 

Follow the links to learn more about Daniel, John, Tolya, Chika, and the RWO Community at Princeton.

You can find more information on Ronald J. Diebert's CBC Massey Lectures "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" here.

The interview was recorded on December 10, 2020. 

The podcast features the track "Do You Trust This" by Howard Harper-Barnes, from Epidemic Sound.

Join Tolya, John, and Chika for this comprehensive interview with Barry Buzan.

Barry Buzan is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and honorary professor at the University of Copenhagen and Jilin University. He is the author and co-author of more than 15 books on world order, including "People, States, and Fear", "The Logic of Anarchy", "Security: a New Framework for Analysis", "Regions and Powers", "The Global Transformation", and, most recently, "The Making of Global International Relations". Professor Buzan is famous for his work with the English School of International Relations and the Copenhagen School of Critical Security Studies as well as his research into the historical sociology of international systems.

Follow the links to learn more about John, Tolya, Chika, and the RWO Community at Princeton.

The interview was recorded on November 20, 2020. The podcast features the track "Do You Trust This" by Howard Harper-Barnes, from Epidemic Sound.

Join Tolya, John, and Chika for this comprehensive interview with Richard Falk. 

Richard is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice (emeritus) at Princeton University. He is the author and co-author of more than twenty books on world order, including the path-breaking This Endangered Planet: Prospects and Proposals for Human Survival (1971), A Study of Future Worlds (1975), and, most recently, Power Shift: On the New Global Order (2016) and Palestine's Horizon: Toward a Just Peace (2017). At Princeton, Richard led the American chapter of the World Order Models Project, an international collaboration among scholars looking to illuminate a more just and humane world order and define the political steps leading toward it. Beyond Princeton, Richard served on the United Nations Human Rights Inquiry Commission for the Palestinian territories and as United Nations Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. His memoir, "Public Intellectual: the Life of a Citizen Pilgrim", is available for pre-order on Amazon.

Richard's blog Global Justice in the 21st Century can be accessed here.

Follow the links to learn more about John, Tolya, Chika, and the RWO Community at Princeton.

The interview was recorded on September 11, 2020. The podcast features the track "Do You Trust This" by Howard Harper-Barnes, from Epidemic Sound.