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🕑 Added 2021-05-18 06:00:02 +0000 UTCOn liberal idealism and imperial overreach.
Why did the winners of the Cold War turn 'revisionist', undermining their own order? How has utopianism come to dominate the discipline of IR, such that we have lost the means to critique power?
We discuss Philip's recent book, The New Twenty Years’ Crisis 1999-2019: A Critique of International Relations, which is both a revisiting of EH Carr's international relations classic The Twenty Years' Crisis as well as an account of the contemporary crisis of the liberal international order.
Reading:
The New Twenty Years’ Crisis 1999-2019: A Critique of International Relations, Philip Cunliffe, McGill-Queen's UP
Comments
Eli S
Do they plan on getting publicly beheaded in the future? LOL, why bring that kind of heat down on themselves?
Paul Brewer
This is definitely one of my Indisputable Top 20 Bungacast Episodes. I loved the discussion of EH Carr, and I would be interested to hear what a War Studies alumnus like Prof. Cunliffe thinks of AJP Taylor, whose writing style I find wholly admirable but whose approach to history seemed out-of-step even somewhat in its own time let alone today.
Ran Heilbrunn
Thanks, that was really excellent. In some strange way, Israel-Palestine was one of the forefronts of the end of history moment, at least in its 1990s variation. I'm thinking about the Oslo Accords, the Americanization of Israeli culture, or the still widespread dominance of postmodern identity politics ("post-Zionism") in the Israeli left. Do you plan on doing an Israel-Palestine episode in the future? I'd love to hear your thoughts on these issues.
