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Dr. Vendulka Kubálková

WHAT IS GLOBAL IR?

 A click to the most prominent advocate of “Global” since his presidency of the ISA, Indian professor Amitav Acharya. Amitav Acharya, Professor at American University, Washington DC, and former President of the International Studies Association (ISA) , explains the idea of Global IR, which he introduced in his Presidential Address in 2014.

Featuring Dr. Vendulka Kubálková’s Latest Work

My Path To Global International Relations

Without Amitav Acharya’s insistence in the last decade that International Studies have to become Global, there would be no place for work like mine, My Path to Global International Relations, or the collection of videos International Relations Plus. Works of a Czech exile from the Soviet bloc wandering around the world and universities in different countries caught up in the Cold War espionage networks? And lost?

However, I was blessed by meeting world-renowned scholars on my path. Immanuel Wallerstein claimed (and I heard Hedley Bull anticipating that statement) that to be published the work absolutely must be new! As Wallerstein put it, it must be a “protest” against the accepted verity. In her talk “On the Crisis of American Higher Education,” Dr. Liz Coleman decried the passivity in the American academy. At the end of her detailed indictment, she asks: “If a change in higher education does not occur and higher education descends into a crisis, what will I say, years from now, when people ask, “Where were you?” These words come from the famous African/American spiritual, an Eastern hymn; she seems to try to appeal to the possibly highest moral authority. 

“Where was I?” As an exile and a stranger to established Western mainstream thinking about the world, I also tried to figure out the path from the Gutenberg era in which I was raised and “taught to think.” As cognitive scientists tell us, it was a different way of thinking from the new generations in the Information Age. It is no longer based just on “texts” but on audiovisual messages used by social media – and “stories.” Liz Coleman warns us that we might have to reimagine education to avoid its crisis, its demise. I have worked on creating teaching/learning videos for many years as a hobby, trying to figure out a new way of communication that is different from the academic tradition, i.e., publications of printed books and articles. The result is still an experiment, the collection of videos I call International Relations + Plus.

Contributors

Professor Renat Shaykhutdinov​

Earlier Works

International Relations in a Constructed World

Marxism and International Relations

Foreign Policy in a Constructed World

Thinking New About Soviet "New Thinking"

Marxism-Leninism and the Theory of International Relations

International Inequality, Competing Approaches

Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East

Religion in International Relations: The Return from Exile

Constructing International Relations: The Next Generation

Constructivism and Comparative Politics

Commonsense Constructivism, Or the Making of World Affairs

Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations

Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World

Video List

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION (3 VIDEOS)
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  • 1. ABOUT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PLUS (IR+) 3.04MIN
  • 2. A NEW GLOBE FOR THE CLASSROOM? A PLURALITY OF WORLDVIEWS, THEORIES, VALUES, BELIEFS, AND EXPECTATIONS: AGAINST PAROCHIALISM. HOW TO STUDY THE WORLD? 10.57 MIN
  • 3. WORLD STAGE ACTORS AND AUDIENCE, THEATRUM MUNDUM 6.13 MIN
  • 1. TROUBLE IN THE WORLD - INEQUALITY, ENVIRONMENT (8:01)
  • 2. PEACE OF WESTPHALIA AND BEYOND (14:15)
  • 3. WAR - WHAT ONE NUCLEAR BOMB DROPPED ON MANHATTAN WOULD DO (12:24)
  • 4. WHAT WAS THE SOVIET UNION WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR (18:31)
  • 5. WHAT IS THE WEST (11:06)
  • 6. GLOBALIZATION NEW ERA (4:03)
  • 7. CHINA3 - GLOBALIZING BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE _BEIJING CONSENSUS_ (12:22)
  • 8. PREPARING FOR THE NUCLEAR WAR - THE MUSIC OF DESTRUCTION (11:52)
  • 9. MISUSE OF INFORMATION, FROM PAST TOTALITARIAN REGIMES TO TODAY'S PRACTICES (4:09)
  • 10. HOW WE GET KNOWLEDGE INVENTION OF PRESS, DIGITAL ERA (12:32)
  • 11. RETURN OF RELIGIONS BEYOND HUNTINGTONS CIVILIZATIONS (13:56)
  • 1. WHAT WAS THE SOVIET UNION WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR (18:31)
  • 2. GORBACHEV'S PLANS FOR THE SOVIET UNION AND THE WORLD (18:09)
  • 3. REQUIEM FOR THE SOVIET UNION (4:33)
  • 4. VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR (8:29)
  • 1. GROTESQUE INEQUALITY - TROUBLE IN THE WORLD - INEQUALITY, ENVIRONMENT (8:01)
  • 2. MODERNIZATION EFFORTS - RUNNING OUT OF TIME (4:25)
  • 3. MODERNIZATION EFFORTS IN CARTOONS (9:06)
  • 4. MODERNIZATION - THEORIES DEPENDENCY, WORLD SYSTEM (16:22)
  • 5. MODERNIZATION EFFORTS THE ROLE OF UN (6:50)
  • 6. DEVELOPMENT THINKING OVER TIME - A BIGGER PICTURE PART 1 OVERVIEW (8:27)
  • 7. DEVELOPMENT THINKING OVER TIME - A BIGGER PICTURE PART 2 IN DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES (8:54)
  • 8. DEVELOPMENT THINKING OVER TIME - A BIGGER PICTURE PART 3 WASHINGTON OR BEIJING CONSENSUS (13:00)
  • 1. MODERNITY IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORICAL ERAS MULTIPLE MODERNITIES, SHMUEL EISENSTADT (14:42)
  • 2. MODERNITY - SCIENCE AND FAITH - LOOKING AT MICHELANGELO’S CREATION FRESCO IN THE VATICAN PART 1 (5:34)
  • 3. MODERNITY - SCIENCE AND FAITH - LOOKING AT MICHELANGELO’S CREATION FRESCO IN THE VATICAN PART 2 (5:50)
  • 4. MODERNITY - SCIENCE AND FAITH - LOOKING AT MICHELANGELO’S CREATION FRESCO IN THE VATICAN PART 3 (8:50)
  • 5. BACK TO FRESCO - LANGUAGE IN IR PROBLEMS WITH THE POSITIVIST APPROACH (11:05)
  • 6. WHAT IS THE WEST (11:06)
  • 1. LESSONS FROM A PHILOSOPHER PART 1 INTRODUCTION (6:34)
  • 2. LESSONS FROM A PHILOSOPHER PART 2 101 (10:17)
  • 3. LESSONS FROM A PHILOSOPHER PART 3 201 (4:24)
  • 4. LESSONS FROM A PHILOSOPHER PART 4 CONCLUSION (3:16)
  • 5. WHAT DO WE THINK WE KNOW (16:57)
  • 6. VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR (8:29)
  • 7. PEARLS OF WISDOM IN THE PAST (22:14)
  • 8. PLATO'S CAVE ALLEGORY ABOUT KNOWLEDGE (14:04)
  • 9. HOW WE GET KNOWLEDGE INVENTION OF PRESS, DIGITAL ERA (12:32)
  • 10. HOLISM AND REDUCTIONISM - FRAGMENTATION OR HOLISTIC VIEW OF THE WORLD (11:37)
  • 11. TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS - METAPHOR (12:26)
  • 12. TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS - FRAMES (6:46)
  • 13. THUCYDIDES MIGHT RATHER THAN RIGHT (8:39)
  • 14. RETURN OF RELIGIONS BEYOND HUNTINGTON'S CIVILIZATIONS (13:56)
  • 15. FOUCAULT HISTORY OF PRESENT (18:23)
  • 1. RENE DESCARTES PART 1 (8:36)
  • 2. RENE DESCARTES PART 2 - AND GOD, RELIGION AND ISLAM (6:17)
  • 3. RENE DESCARTES PART 3 - BINARIES (14:50)
  • 4. RENE DESCARTES PART 4 - NEUROLOGISTS COGNITIVE SCIENTISTS CHALLENGE (8:50)
  • 5. RENE DESCARTES PART 5 RENE ON AN AIRPLANE, A JOKE (2:33)
  • 1. UNIVERSITY - WHERE WE GET KNOWLEDGE PART 1 WHY GO TO UNIVERSITY (6:52)
  • 2. UNIVERSITY - WHERE WE GET KNOWLEDGE PART 2 WHERE THE TERMS ASSOCIATED WITH UNIVERSITY COME FROM (7:59)
  • 3. UNIVERSITY - WHERE WE GET KNOWLEDGE PART 3 FROM THE MIDDLE AGES VIA GERMANY TO US (17:48)
  • 4. UNIVERSITY - WHERE WE GET KNOWLEDGE PART 4 SOCIAL SCIENCES IN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (11:06)
  • 5. UNIVERSITY - WHERE WE GET KNOWLEDGE PART 5 POST-MODERNIST CRITIQUE OF UNIVERSITY (8:51)
  • 6. RENAISSANCE MAN AND UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS (4:32)
  • 1. CONTESTED TERMS - GLOBALIZATION INTRODUCTION (2:28)
  • 2. CONTESTED TERMS - PARADIGM (9:33)
  • 3. CONTESTED TERMS - LEFT AND RIGHT (9:47)
  • 4. CONTESTED TERMS - CRITICAL AND RW COX (7:14)
  • 5. CONTESTED TERMS - HEGEMONY PART 1 GOOD OR BAD (5:26)
  • 6. CONTESTED TERMS - HEGEMONY PART 2 GRAMSCI AND SOVIET VIEW (9:38)
  • 7. CONTESTED TERMS - HEGEMONY PART 3 GRAMSCI COX ONUF (9:13)
  • 1. RETURN OF RELIGIONS BEYOND HUNTINGTONS CIVILIZATIONS (13:56)
  • 2. CIVILIZATIONS CULTURES - INTERCIVILIZATIONAL INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE PART 2 - THE ROLE OF UN (8:55)
  • 3. FAITH AND REASON BINARY - LENNOX VS DAWKINS (11:00)
  • 4. RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD - A QUICK OVERVIEW (9:00)
  • 5. RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD - 0RIGIN HISTORY DEMOGRAPHY GEOPOLITICS (7:14)
  • 6. ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS (16:07)
  • 7. CHRISTIAN REALISTS IN IR OVER TIME (23:32)
  • 8. PEACE OF WESTPHALIA AND BEYOND (14:15)
  • 9. PEACE OF WESTPHALIS AND BEYOND - AND ISLAM IN 1648 (12:20)
  • 1. LOOKING FOR MARX AND MARXISM (7:44)
  • 2. MARXISM PEDIGREE (9:20)
  • 3. WHO REMEMBERED MARX'S BIRTHDAYS (14:01)
  • 4. WHY MARXISM (8:47)
  • 1. GLOBALIZATION NEW ERA (4:03)
  • 2. CONTESTED TERMS - GLOBALIZATION INTRODUCTION (2:28)
  • 3. GLOBALIZATION INTRODUCTION (12:29)
  • 4. REVIEW SESSION OF BASICS (8:56)
  • 5. GLOBALIZATION PART 5 FIVE MINUTE WALK THROUGH THE WORLD (5:14)
  • 6. GLOBALIZATION THOMAS FRIEDMAN'S NEOLIBERAL VIEW (17:12)
  • 7. GLOBALIZATION FIRST ACCOUNTS (12:13)
  • 8. GLOBALIZATION THEORIES PART 1 (13:06)
  • 9. GLOBALIZATION THEORIES PART 2 (11:35)
  • 10. AMITAV ACHARYA NEW VIEW ON GLOBALIZATION (4:12)
  • 1. CHINA - HISTORY AND CULTURE (12:27)
  • 2. CHINA - TRANSLATING CHINESE CONCEPTS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (21:44)
  • 3. CHINA - GLOBALIZING BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE BEIJING CONSENSUS (12:22)
  • 1. PEACE OF WESTPHALIA AND BEYOND (14:15)
  • 2. PEACE OF WESTPHALIA HOW WE TEACH IT (4:21)
  • 3. ANARCHY LEVIATHAN (7:38)
  • 4. FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS - LEVELS OF ANALYSIS (2:25)
  • 5. FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND STORIES - THE THREE (OR MORE) DEBATES AND TURNS (17:38)
  • 6. FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND STORIES - THREE TRADITIONS_ - HEDLEY BULL AND MARTIN WIGHT (11:09)
  • 7. FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND STORIES - _THREE IMAGES_ KENNETH WALTZ (5:44)
IR Introduction
  • 1. US INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DISCIPLINE - TO GLOBAL - INTRODUCTION (13:53)
  • 2. US INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DISCIPLINE TIMELINE (4:14)
  • 3. RATIONALITY AND RATIONAL CHOICE BRIEF SKETCH (10:00)
  • 4. ANARCHY LEVIATHAN SOCEREIGNTY (7:38)
  • 5. STANLEY HOFFMANN - NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL_ (6:04)
  • 6. TYPES OF THEORIES AND THEORISTS EXPLAINING AND UNDERSTANDING (14:00)
  • 7. POSITIVISM NEOPOSITIVISM - WHO IS IR DISCIPLINE GRANDFATHER (9:21)
  • 8. WHAT IS THEORY CSI WORLD (11:08)
  • 9. US INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TOOLKIT (5:53)
  • 10. WHAT DID MORGENTHAU REALLY SAY (13:01)
IR Foundational Concepts, Narratives & Myths (from XIV)
  • 1. PEACE OF WESTPHALIA AND BEYOND (14:15)
  • 2. PEACE OF WESTPHALIA HOW WE TEACH IT (4:21)
  • 3. ANARCHY LEVIATHAN (7:38)
  • 4. FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS - LEVELS OF ANALYSIS (2:25)
  • 5. FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND STORIES - THE THREE (OR MORE) DEBATES AND TURNS (17:38)
  • 6. FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND STORIES - THREE TRADITIONS_ - HEDLEY BULL AND MARTIN WIGHT (11:09)
  • 7. FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND STORIES - _THREE IMAGES_ KENNETH WALTZ (5:44)
The English School
  • 1. THE ENGLISH SCHOOL THE ANGLOAMERICAN ORIGINS (9:57)
  • 2. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN (7:09)
  • 3. THE ENGLISH SCHOOL - BASIC TERMS (8:46)
  • 4. THREE TRADITIONS - HEDLEY BULL AND MARTIN WIGHT (11:09)
Realism in IR
  • 1. IR REALISM IDEALISM PART 1 (12:55)
  • 2. REALISM AS CORE OF IR PART 2 (9:56)
  • 3. REALISM VARIETIES - CLASSICAL (5:40)
  • 4. REALISM VARIETIES - STRUCTURAL (WALTZ) FOREIGN POLICY NALYSIS AND NEOCLASSICAL REALISM (16:29)
  • 5. CHRISTIAN REALISTS IN IR (23:32)
US IR As Political Science
  • 1. US INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DISCIPLINE - INTRODUCTION (13:53)
  • 2. IR TYPES OF THEORIES - LETS ASK PROF JAMES ROSENAU (13:41)
  • 3. WHAT IS THEORY_ _CSI WORLD_ HEMPELS DEDUCTIVE-NOMOLOGICAL MODEL (11:08)
  • 4. POSITIVISM NEOPOSITIVISM - WHO IS IR DISCIPLINE GRANDFATHER - POSITIVISM NEOPOSITIVISM (9:21)
  • 5. NEOREALISM-NEOLIBERALISM - _NEO NEO_ PART 1 INTRODUCTION (9:32)
  • 6. NEO NEO - PART 2 PATH TO NEO NEO DEBATE (8:06)
  • 7. NEO NEO PART 3 DEBATE (25:34)
  • 8. NEO NEO - PART 4 COLORING IR (4:36)
  • 9. NEO NEO - PART 5 PROF MEARSHEIMER ON LIBERALISM (7:14)
US IR As Political Science
  • 1. IR SATIRIC LOOK (5:19)
  • 2. ANTS AS SOCIAL BEINGS (8:51)
  • 3. NO IDEOLOGY IN IR (15:30)
  • 4. IMITATING NATURAL SCIENCES (4:09)
  • 5. PROF MEARSHEIMER ON LIBERALISM (7:14)
  • 6. WHAT DID MORGENTHAU REALLY SAY (13:01)