Alliances with Prof Paul Poast

April 8
54 mins

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1. 📄 Downs et al. (2009), “Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation?”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/abs/is-the-good-news-about-compliance-good-news-about-cooperation/636DE333F8E1EC944825DDBFD81BE294

2. 📄 Von Stein (2005), “Do treaties constrain or screen? Selection bias and treaty compliance”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/do-treaties-constrain-or-screen-selection-bias-and-treaty-compliance/99619F321DE63766D626E19155D69C35

3. 📄 Morrow (2000), “Alliances: Why write them down?”
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.polisci.3.1.63

4. 🌍 Wendt (1992), “Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2706858

    🧠 a. Brief description of constructivism
    https://www.e-ir.info/2020/05/19/a-brief-overview-of-alexander-wendts-constructivism/

    🤓 b. What’s that? You wanted even more on constructivism?
    https://institutes.abu.edu.ng/idr/public/assets/docs/Constructivism%20and%20International%20Relations%20%20Alexander%20Wendt%20and%20his%20Critics%20(The%20New%20International%20Relations)%20(%20PDFDrive%20).pdf

5. 📊 Major dataset on military alliances by Prof. Brett Ashley Leeds (whose work we also discussed)
http://www.atopdata.org
https://leeds.rice.edu/research/

6. 📰 Paul’s weekly columns for the World Politics Review
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/author/paul-poast-2920/

7. 📚 One of Paul’s (several, excellent) books, Arguing about Alliances
https://www.paulpoast.com/arguing-about-alliances

8. 🌐 Recent-ish article in the Atlantic by Paul, “Not a world war but a world at war” (we didn’t talk about this specifically in the episode, but it’s a great writeup)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/11/conflicts-around-the-world-peak/676029/

9. 🔗 Paul’s website
https://www.paulpoast.com/

10. 💼 Follow Paul on LinkedIn – he posts regular commentary on international relations events as they unfold
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-poast-83550b79/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7446569050081710080/?originTrackingId=bnCSJxFBZsvkuC7Xqvk9nw%3D%3D


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