POLIT 106 - World Politics

• Foreign Affairs Magazine Homepage
• INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
• US State Dept. Website
• United Nations Website
• European Union Website
• NATO Website

 

• They Predicted the Ukraine War. But Did They Still Get it Wrong? (Douthat, NYT)
• The Month That Changed a Century (Foreign Affairs, 4/22)
• Fareed Zakaria GPS (CNN)
• The Thucydides Trap 

 

 

Videos

 

• Foreign Chronicles
• Caspian Report
• International Relations 101 (MOOC YouTube)
• Forms of Government (World 101)
• What is Realism in Global Politics?
• Mearsheimer: Structural Realism
• Mearsheimer: Neorealism
• What is Liberalism in Global Politics?
• Liberalism/Neoliberalism
• Neoliberalism and Complex Interdependence
• Mearsheimer, Keohane and Martin
• Liberalism & Realism
• Liberalism or Realism?
• Theory in Action: Constructivism
• IR Constructivism
• Constructivist Theory
• Feminism and International Relations
• Gender, War and Peace
• Marxist Approach to IR
• Rise of Neo-Marxism- Understanding IR
• World-System Theory, Dependency Theory and Global Inequality
• Imanuel Wallerstein: The Global Systemic Crisis
• Theories of Global Stratification: Crash Course Sociology
• Bringing IR Theories to Life (Syria Example)
• Democratic Peace Theory- A Short Introduction
• The Kantian Approach to IF (Michael Doyle)
• IR 101: Democratic Peace Theory
• Israel, Iraq, and Democratic Peace Theory (TED)
• How to Analyze IR Like an Expert (Levels of Analysis)
• Brief Introduction to Levels of Analysis
• Levels of Analysis in Global Politics
• Core Concepts in IR: Levels of Analysis
• Rational Choice Theory (Econ in 60 Seconds)
• Rational Choice Theory-Exchange Theory
• Analysing Limits of Rational Choice
• Rational Choice Theory in IR
• Prisoners Dilemma
• What is a Nash Equilibrium?
• Game Theory: The Science of Decision-Making
• What Game Theory Teaches About War
• Groupthink
• Prospect Theory (One Minute)
• Prospect Theory, Judgment and Decision-Making
• Expected Utility Theory vs. Prospect Theory
• Attribution Theory
• Cognitive Dissonance Theory
• Confirmation Theory
• Rationality and Foreign Policy
• The Schlieffen Plan and Why it Failed
• The Munich Agreement of 1938 (History Lessons)
• Was Appeasement Justified?
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (#1): The Failed Checkmate
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (#2): Eyeball to Eyeball
• The Cuban Missile Crisis (#3): Black Saturday
• The Powell Doctrine
• Crash Courses: IR
• The Peace of Westphalia
• The Treaty of Westphalia (Fry and Laurie)
• Crash Course: Congress of Vienna
• Crash Course: Foreign Policy (American)
• Crash Course: How WW I Started
• Crash Course: Who Started WW I
• Crash Course: WW II
• Crash Course: WW II- War for Resources
• Crash Course: WW II European History
• Crash Course: Post-War Rebuilding and the Cold War
• Crash Course: Cold War (US)
• Crash Course: USA vs. USSR
• Crash Course: Cold War in Asia
• Crash Course: The Soviet Bloc Unwinds
• The Post-Cold War Order
• Why Nations Go to War
• Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? (John Green)
• Realistic Conflict Theory: The Psychology of War and Peace
• Causes of War (IR 101)
• Causes of War- Sun Tzu
• Clausewitz vs. Sun Tzu
• What are the Main Causes of War?
• Causes of War and Conditions of Peace (David Cortright)
• The Use of Force: International Law Simplified
• Mearsheimer: Moving to a Multi-Polar World (from Russia w/ Love)
• Crash Course: Imperialism (19th Century)
• Liberalism, Mercantilism and Political Economy
• Crash Course: Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant
• Theories of Global Stratification (Crash Course Sociology)
• Dependency Theory
• State Actors and Non-State Actors in Global Politics
• The World's Largest and Most Important IGOs You Should Know
• The United Nations Explained For Dummies
• The UN Explained: How Does it Actually Work
• How to Fix the UN (The Economist)
• What is NATO.....? (NATO/OTAN)
• NATO vs. BRICS
• The European Union
• NGOs
• Bretton Woods System (1944-71) in One Minute
• GATT vs. WTO
• The WTO in One Minute
• What's the Difference between the IMF and the World Bank?
• Most Powerful Corporations in the World?
• The League of Nations
• History Brief: S.A.L.T
• A Long History Behind Arms Control
• Collapse of the Nuclear Arms Control
• Arms Control and Disarmament
• I've Studied Nuclear War for 35 Years- You Should Be Worried (TED)
• Nuclear Proliferation and Non-Proliferation Explained
• Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Three Things to Know
• Should More Countries Have Nuclear Weapons?
• What Are the Sources of International Law
• What is the Role of the International Criminal Court
• Why is the ICC Under Attack?
• The Art of Diplomacy
• What Diplomats Really Do
• Negotiations in Foreign Policy
• What is Political Economy
• Aspects of IR: International Political Economy
• Comparative Advantage Explained
• Comparative Advantage and Trade
• Economic Schools of Thought (Crash Course Economics)
• Capitalism, Communism & Political Economies (Crash Course Geography)
• What's the Bretton Woods System?
• How the 2008 Financial Crisis Crashed the Economy and Changed the World (PBS)
• The Greek Debt Crisis
• Imports, Exports and Exchange Rates (Crash Course Econ)
• Globalization and Trade and Poverty (Crash Course Econ)
• Economic Stimulus: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Explained
• The Upside: Globalization (Crash Course World History)
• Globalization: Good or Bad (Crash Course World History)
• What is Globalization?
• Globalization Pros and Cons
• Is Globalization Over?
• Will Covid Kill Globalization?
• Has Globalization Failed Us?
• Globalization is Fracturing. So what comes next?
• What is Deglobalization?
• Global Inequality: What you never knew you never knew
• Income and Wealth Inequality (Crash Course Economics)
• Why is Inequality Rising? (CNBC)
• Is Inequality Inevitable?
• The Paradox of World Hunger
• Is Eradicating World Hunger Ever Going to be Possible?
• Why Food Won't End World Hunger (TED)
• Can Capitalism End World Hunger?
• World Inequality Post-Covid (OxFam)
• Covid 19: How to Fix the Economy
• Kevin O'Leary on Biden, and Cryptocurrency
• What is International Law (Animated Explainer)
• International Law Explained
• (Brief) History of International Law
• What is International Law?
• Does International Law Work?
• What are Universal Human Rights?
• International Human Rights Treaties Explained
• International Declaration of Human Rights
• Amnesty International: The Ten Best Human Rights Videos
• 10 Countries With the Worst Human Rights (2019)
• 10 Countries With the Worst Human Rights (2022)
• Evolution of Global Environmental Politics
• Levels of Analysis in Global Politics- Climate Change
• Why is Climate Change so Political?
• Who is Responsible for Climate Change? - Who Needs to Fix It?
• The Thucydides Trap