Join Tolya Levshin, John Ikenberry, and Chika Tonooka for this comprehensive interview with Barry Buzan.
Reimagining World Order is a feature podcast of the Reimagining World Order research community at Princeton University. Jointly hosted by John, Tolya, and Chika, this podcast engages eminent scholars of world order in conversations about their intellectual journeys, research, and takes on our present discontents. The podcast is available on other platforms through anchor.fm/rwo.
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.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:16 Buzan's intellectual origins
00:07:19 Buzan's creative process
00:11:30 "The Logic of Anarchy": what did Waltz get wrong?
00:17:18 Interaction capacity
00:20:20 "International Systems in World History": the value of a historico-sociological approach to International Relations (IR)
00:27:40 The pedagogical value of historical sociology for students of IR
00:32:30 Buzan's vision for undergraduate curriculum in International Relations
00:35:11 The project of globalizing the study of IR
00:39:15 Milestones in and obstacles to globalizing IR
00:42:40 What new theoretical concepts might a globalized IR deliver?
00:46:13 Making sense of modernity
00:51:10 Has modernity been a force for stability or instability? For moral improvement or deterioration in the human condition?
00:56:33 Granular accounts of modernity
01:01:21 The standard of civilization
01:05:00 China's project for modernity and world order
01:14:20 Advice to new graduate students on choosing their research questions and dissertation topics
01:17:34 Final thoughts
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The interview was recorded on November 20, 2020.
The podcast features the track "Do You Trust This" by Howard Harper-Barnes, from Epidemic Sound (www.epidemicsound.com/track/8..., and Tito Lessi's painting "Galileo et Viviani".