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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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:...

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...

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,...

Professor Bartholomew Sparrow is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books including The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security which is the subject of our conversation this week. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today: The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security The National Security Council Jacob Burckhardt Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as...

Professor Michael Morgan is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation and the Cold War. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today: The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation and the Cold War S1 E7: John Lewis Gaddis Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan A Diplomatic Revolution by Matthew Connelly Power and Protest by Jeremi...

Professor Megan Black is an Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today: The Global Interior William Appleman Williams Ian Tyrell Kurk Dorsey Bernath Lecture Melanie McAlister Monica Kim Stuart Schrader Amy Offner Genevieve Clutario

Professor Peter J. Spiro is the Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. He is the author of numerous books on citizenship and international law including At Home in Two Countries, the subject of our conversation today. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today: At Home in Two Countries The New Sovereigntists: American Exceptionalism and Its False Prophets Citizenship by Dimitry Kochenov Morton Halperin Charles...

Professor Richard Aldous is the Eugene Meyer Professor of British History at Bard College. Prior to that, he taught for 15 years at University College Dublin, where he was the chair of the history department. He's the author of numerous books including works on Reagan and Thatcher's relationship, a dual biography of Disraeli and Gladstone and the subject of our conversation Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation...

Professor David Brown is the Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College. The following books and people are pertinent to this episode: Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography The Idea of the Two Party System The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It Everyman His Own Historian The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams The History of United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson...

Professor Luke Nichter is a Professor of History and James H. Cavanaugh Endowed Chair in Presidential Studies at Chapman University. The following books and articles are pertinent to this episode: The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War White House Years by Henry Kissinger IR Talk Episode with Professor Thomas Schwartz Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World  

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Professor John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett chair of Naval and Military History at Yale University. He has received the Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Humanities Medal. The following are his books and articles mentioned and alluded to in the podcast: The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past George F. Kennan: An American Life On Grand Strategy Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War The...

Dr. William Bernstein is a trained neurologist and writes and advises on finance. He is the author of numerous books including A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World which is the subject of our conversation.

Professor Thomas A. Schwartz is a distinguished professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He also holds appointments as professor of political science and professor of European studies at that institution. He is the author most recently of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography, which is the subject of our conversation. For further information on Henry Kissinger see this Encyclopedia Britannica entry: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Kissinger

Professor John Wilsey teaches church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of three books, One Nation Under God: An Evangelical Critique of Christian America, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea and God's Cold Warrior: The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles which is the subject of our conversation.

Professor Molly Worthen of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researches and teaches American religious history. She is the author of two books, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism and The Man on Whom Nothing was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill.  In the podcast we discuss the life of the subject of Professor Worthen's biography, Charles Hill.  Important Links: The Death of a Grand Strategist The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The...

Professor Mark Bell teaches researches international relations at the University of Minnesota focusing on nuclear weapons, American and British foreign policy and international relations theory. He was previously a graduate student at MIT where he got his PhD. And before that received a master's in public policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard as a Frank Knox fellow, prior to that, graduated with a first class degree in politics, philosophy and economics from St. Anne's College,...

Today on the podcast we have Wenchi Yu. Wenchi Yu is a fellow at the Ash Center at the Kennedy School at Harvard. Before that she was Head of Corporate Engagement for Goldman Sachs in Asia. Prior to that she worked at the US Department of State in the Secretary of State's Office, as a senior adviser on global women’s issues.