PTJ and Dan discuss Cynthia Weber's 1994 book, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State and Symbolic Exchange. Weber examines "the justifications for intervention offered by the Concert of Europe, President Wilson's administration, and the Reagan-Bush administrations" and analyzes them via a combination of "critical international relations theory and ... Show More
Oct 16
Episode 2: Being and Insecurity
Pauline Sophie Heinrichs, Nina Krickel-Choi, Jennifer Mitzen, and Brent Steele join Dan and Patrick for wide-ranging discussion of the theory, practice, disagreements, and citation practices that define ontological security studies.Our Season 2 theme music, "Dragons," was written ... Show More
1h 31m
Nov 2023
Season 3, Episode 1: John Mearsheimer, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
Send us Fan MailJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist John Mearsheimer as they discuss Professor Mearsheimer’s latest book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. Hailed as the most influential foreign policy realist of his generation, Mearsheimer and ... Show More
51m 44s
Dec 2023
Season 3, Episode 2: Lindsey A. O'Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War
Send us Fan MailJoin Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke as they discuss O’Rourke’s remarkable book, Covert Regime Change. US foreign policy is based heavily on trying to overthrow foreign governments, and O’Rourke’s account is a powerful and deeply s ... Show More
42m 22s
Aug 2025
#429 — The New World Order
<p dir="ltr">Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum about the erosion of democracy at home and abroad. They discuss the Sudanese civil war and the outside forces involved, America's retreat from global leadership, the impacts of USAID cuts, gerrymandering, the integrity of U.S. el ... Show More
26m 52s
Sep 2025
#433 — How Did We Get Here?
Sam Harris speaks with Dan Carlin about the decades-long buildup to our current political moment. They discuss the growing powers of the presidency, executive orders, different factions within the Republican Party, the fragmentation of our society, Libertarianism, the growing pro ... Show More
22m 6s
Oct 2023
75 TEASER | Power, Reason, and Justification: Rainer Forst’s Critical Theory
<p>In this episode, we discuss the social theory of the Kantian critical theorist Rainer Forst in his book <em>Normativity and Power</em>. We work through how well his theory of the relationship between power and reason accounts for economic domination, why he thinks power and vi ... Show More
8m 14s
Nov 2023
Episode 19: Rising Powers, Status, and Hypocrisy
Ilen Madhavji sits down with the 2023 winner of the HJD Book Award, Dr. Rohan Mukherjee, to discuss how rising powers seek status from the established international order, to reserve their seat at the table of power. Inspired by Dr. Mukherjee's award-winning book 'Ascending Order ... Show More
28m 39s
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Episode 248 of</span> <a href="https://www.hiddenforces.io/podcasts"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Hidden Forces</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Demetri Kofinas speaks with professors of international relations John Mearsheime ... Show More
