In order to celebrate having produced over one hundred episodes of the Thinking Global podcast, this week Professor Alexander Wendt chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Daniel Drury about the ontological security threat to the state and the state system posed by Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), his career trajectory, writing his award winning books, international relations theory and so much more.

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Alexander Wendt is Mershon Professor of International Security and Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. Wendt is interested in philosophical aspects of social science, with special reference to international relations. He is most well-known for his work on constructivism in world politics, including Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which received the International Studies Association’s “Best Book of the Decade” award in 2006. In 2017 Wendt was named the most influential scholar in International Relations over the past 20 years in a TRIP survey of 1400 IR faculty. And in 2023, for their contributions to constructivism Wendt and Martha Finnemore were awarded the prestigious Skytte Prize in Political Science. In his more recent work, Quantum Mind and Social Science (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and beyond, Wendt explores some implications for social science of the finding that the Kahneman-Tversky anomalies in rational decision-making can all be resolved if quantum theory is used as a baseline rather than an expected-utility model based on classical probability theory. If the human mind is actually a quantum phenomenon, that could revolutionize today’s classical social sciences in the same way that quantum theory did physics in the 1920s. Taking a short break from quantum, Wendt’s most recent book The Last Humans (Oxford University Press, 2026) explores Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) and human security, in light of the 2021 Pentagon Report confirming that UAP (formerly “UFOs”) are real and a “potential threat to national security.”

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On this week’s episode, Professor Yongjin Zhang (@BristolUni) chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Hira Malik about his own intellectual journey, the concept of world ordering, thinking productively with international society approach, both ancient and contemporary Chinese approaches to world ordering, irresponsible great powers, and much more.

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Yongjin Zhang is Professor of Politics and International Relations at The University of Bristol. His principal research interests and publications cut across the disciplinary boundaries of International Relations theory and Chinese history, politics, economic transformation and international relations. His core research informs and is informed by the ‘English School’ tradition in International Relations theory, but the broad theoretical approach he adopts is more appropriately regarded as eclectic. He has published in the area of the political economy of Chinese global businesses and that of East Asian regionalism and regional security in the Asia-Pacific. One of his current research projects is on International Relations in Ancient China: Ideas, Institutions and Law, an interdisciplinary enquiry drawing upon Chinese political philosophy, history of ideas, ancient history and theories of international relations, and was supported by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship award. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles across his career and is the co-editor of International Orders in the Early Modern World: Before the Rise of the West (Routledge, 2013) and Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations: Ongoing Debates and Sociological Realities (Routledge, 2016). Alongside this, he is the sole author of China in International Society Since 1949: Alienation and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998), and of the recently published Reimagining the International: Chinese World Ordering before the West (Bristol University Press, 2026).

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On this week’s episode, Dr. Athanasios Gkoutzioulis speaks with Stephen Satkiewicz about Hegel and IR Theory. They chat about reading Hegel in IR, common misconceptions about Hegel’s thought, what Hegel brings, communitarianism and cosmopolitanism, and much more.

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Athanasios Gkoutzioulis is an Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at Forward College, affiliated to the University of London. His interests are in International Political Theory, IR Theory, Political Philosophy, Extremism & Terrorism Studies, and South East Asian Studies. He is the author of the newly published Hegel, Tragedy and International Relations: Reflecting on a Polarized World (Bristol University Press, 2026), alongside a number of articles exploring Hegel in both IR theory and International Political Theory.

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On this week’s episode, Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) about studying religion and IR, the politics of secularism, global order, identity, religious freedom, intersectionality, US Foreign Policy and much more.

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Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Professor of Religious Studies and Political Science at Northwestern University. Her research explores the intersection of religion and international politics, with particular attention to U.S. foreign and immigration policy and history. Her work develops innovative approaches to the study of religion through political theory, political ethnography, critical theory, and political theology. She is the author of several books, including The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton University Press, 2015). Her most recent book, Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2025.

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On this week’s episode, Dr. Felix Berenskötter speaks with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Stephen Satkiewicz about the nature of concepts themselves, the importance of studying concepts when thinking politically, why some concepts are more fundamental than others and much more.

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Dr. Felix Berenskötter is Reader in International Relations in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He also directs the MA International Relations programme. Felix’ research explores how we develop and use theories and concepts in world politics, focusing on the analytical and political work they do. His work focuses on concepts of identity, power, security, temporality, anxiety, leadership, and friendship. He is also interested in what the evolution of theories and concepts – their popularity, marginalization, and contestation – tell us about the history and sociology of the academic field of International Relations (IR). Empirically, Felix’ work explores ideas and practices of security and peace in Europe, as well as Germany’s special relationships with other states, such as the USA and Israel. He is currently completing a monograph developing a theory of friendship and estrangement in international politics. He has written a number of articles, is the editor of Concepts in International Relations. A New Introduction (2025, Sage) and he co-edits the book series Bristol Studies in International Theory for Bristol University Press.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Professor G. John Ikenberry speaks with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) about Liberal International Order. Prof. Ikenberry explores critiques of the Liberal international order in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War, the global south and modernity, alongside the major overarching qualities of liberal internationalism. This is the second episode in this two-part series.

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (@Princeton).  He is also Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. Prof. Ikenberry is the author of World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale 2020), Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System (Princeton, 2011), After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001),Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: American Power and International Order (Policy, 2006), and so many more. Prof. Ikenberry has authored 130 journal articles, essays, and book chapters. Prof. Ikenberry’s latest article for International Affairs, ‘Three Worlds: the West, East and South and the competition to shape global order’ is also discussed.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Professor G. John Ikenberry speaks with with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) about Liberal International Order. Prof. Ikenberry explores conceptualising Liberal International Order, the ‘crisis’ of Liberal Order, and how the Russian Invasion of Ukraine fits into this picture. This is the first episode in a two-part series.

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (@Princeton). He is also Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. Prof. Ikenberry is the author of World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale 2020), Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System (Princeton, 2011), After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001), Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: American Power and International Order (Policy, 2006), and so many more. Prof. Ikenberry has authored 130 journal articles, essays, and book chapters. Prof. Ikenberry’s latest article for International Affairs, ‘Three Worlds: the West, East and South and the competition to shape global order’ is also discussed.

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On this week's episode, Kosuke Shimizu speaks with the Thinking Global team about the Kyoto School and 'Non-Western' International Relations. With Kieran (@kieranjomeara) and Edoardo, Prof. Shimizu explores how we can cast 'non-western' International Relations, how the Kyoto School of philosophy can help us think about global politics, the concept of 'relationality', and the manner in which 'non-western' International Relations thinking intersects with certain methodological questions.

Professor Kosuke Shimizu (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@caatc105) is a Professor of International Relations at Ryukoku University, Kyoto. He is currently working on the intersection of Buddhism, Quantum Physics and International Relations. His recent publications include ‘Buddhism and the Question of Relationality in International Relations’ (Uluslararasi Iliskiler, 2021), ‘Political Healing and Mahāyāna Buddhist Medicine: a critical engagement with contemporary international relations’ (Third World Quarterly, 2021). His most recent book, The Kyoto School and International Relations: Non-Western Attempts for a new world order (Routledge, 2022) explores the Kyoto School’s challenge to transcend the ‘Western’ domination over the ‘rest’ of the world, and the issues this raises for contemporary ‘non-Western’ and ‘Global IR’ literature.

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In this week's episode of the Thinking Global podcast (Part 2 of 2) Kieran and Abi speak to Professor Patricia Owens, Dr. Katharina Rietzler, Professor Kimberly Hutchings, and Dr. Sarah C. Dunstan about their award winning anthological volume ⁠'Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon'⁠, published by Cambridge University Press. This book is part of the ⁠'Women and The History of International Thought' Leverhulme Trust Project⁠ (⁠@leverhulmewhit⁠). Following Part One, here Kieran and Abi ask about geopolitics and war in the anthology, alongside the editors' choices of which extracts to include and exclude from the volume.

Prof. Patricia Owens (⁠@Politics_Oxford⁠), is Professor of International Relations at The University of Oxford. Her research interests include twentieth-century international history and theory, historical and contemporary practices of Anglo-American counterinsurgency and military intervention, and disciplinary history and the history of international and political thought.

Dr. Katharina Rietzler (⁠@KatHistory⁠), is Senior Lecturer in American History at The University of Sussex. Her main research interest is the history of international thought from the 1910s to the 1960s, with a focus on the United States and women as international thinkers.

Prof. Kimberly Hutchings (⁠@QMPoliticsIR⁠), is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. She is interested in our frameworks for thinking about politics, and the ideas and assumptions that structure and influence political and ethical judgment and action.

Dr. Sarah C. Dunstan (⁠@sarahcdunstan⁠), is Lecturer in the International History of Modern Human Rights at The University of Glasgow. Her research is driven by the desire to understand how 19th and 20th century understandings of what it means to be human shaped ideas around human rights and citizenship rights.

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In this week's episode of the Thinking Global podcast (Part 1 of 2) Kieran and Abi speak to Professor Patricia Owens, Dr. Katharina Rietzler, Professor Kimberly Hutchings, and Dr. Sarah C. Dunstan about their award winning anthological volume ⁠'Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon'⁠, published by Cambridge University Press. This book is part of the ⁠'Women and The History of International Thought' Leverhulme Trust Project⁠ (⁠@leverhulmewhit⁠). Here, Kieran, Abi and the panel explore why it is that women have been neglected from the canon of international thought, alongside what so many of those excluded have to say on topics such as imperialism, diplomacy, and gender in the international realm.

Prof. Patricia Owens (⁠@Politics_Oxford⁠), is Professor of International Relations at The University of Oxford. Her research interests include twentieth-century international history and theory, historical and contemporary practices of Anglo-American counterinsurgency and military intervention, and disciplinary history and the history of international and political thought.

Dr. Katharina Rietzler (⁠@KatHistory⁠), is Senior Lecturer in American History at The University of Sussex. Her main research interest is the history of international thought from the 1910s to the 1960s, with a focus on the United States and women as international thinkers.

Prof. Kimberly Hutchings (⁠@QMPoliticsIR⁠), is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. She is interested in our frameworks for thinking about politics, and the ideas and assumptions that structure and influence political and ethical judgment and action.

Dr. Sarah C. Dunstan (⁠@sarahcdunstan⁠), is Lecturer in the International History of Modern Human Rights at The University of Glasgow. Her research is driven by the desire to understand how 19th and 20th century understandings of what it means to be human shaped ideas around human rights and citizenship rights.

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On this week’s episode, Prof. Sarah Pink chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) in this second episode of two about futures anthropology, emerging technologies, influencing policy, advice to early career researchers, and much more.

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Professor Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of FUTURES Hub and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, where she engages and innovates interdisciplinary and international research approaches to offer fresh perspectives and realistic future visions and foresight about the role of human futures in shaping digital and net zero transitions. She has a joint appointment across the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture and the Faculty of Information Technology. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate Professor and has over 25 years of experience of working with academic and industry research partners internationally and frequently gives keynote and public lectures in academic and business environments. She has published numerous books, including Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future and Doing Visual Anthropology and has directed several documentaries. She is known for her career-long focus on innovating new research and dissemination methodologies, and engaging design futures, digital, visual and sensory methods in interdisciplinary projects to engage with contemporary issues and challenges.

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In this week's episode of the Thinking Global podcast, Cynthia Enloe talks with the team. To begin with, Professor Enloe unfolds her claim that "The international is personal; the personal is international", before exploring the idea of 'womenandchildren' rhetoric in contemporary conflict. Following this, Professor Enloe discusses the marginalisation of Feminist International Relations and how Feminist International Relations can challenge the dominant narratives the discipline has constructed. Lastly, prior to a brief exploration of masculinity and militarisation, Professor Enloe talks about her new book 'Twelve Feminist Lessons of War', available from ⁠University of California Press⁠ and ⁠Footnotes Press⁠.

Professor Cynthia Enloe is a Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, with affiliations with Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science, all at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts (@ClarkUniversity⁠). Some of Professor Enloe’s books include: 'Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives' (2000), 'The Curious Feminist' (2004), 'Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War' (2010), 'Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered' (2013), 'Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link' (2016), and of course her seminal work: 'Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics' (1989).

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In this week's episode of Thinking Global, Wendy Brown speaks with the Thinking Global team. First, Professor Brown explores Nihilism as contemporary political condition, discussing her new book 'Nihilistic Times', which can be found on the ⁠Harvard University Press⁠ Website. From here, the team explore the central thesis of 'Walled States, Waning Sovereignty' (2010) and reflect on Professor Brown's well-known article 'Resisting Left Melancholy' (1999), prior to a short concluding discussion on Neoliberalism in the contemporary world.

Professor Wendy Brown is Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley (@UCBerkeley). Professor Brown’s fields of interest include the history of political theory, feminist theory, contemporary critical theories of law, nineteenth and twentieth century Continental theory, and contemporary American political culture. She is best known for intertwining the insights of Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Frankfurt School theorists, Foucault, and contemporary Continental philosophers to critically interrogate formations of power, political identity, citizenship, and political subjectivity in contemporary liberal democracies.

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James Der Derian talks with the Thinking Global team about Quantum International Relations, revealing what this could mean for International Relations Theory and International Security. In this episode, Professor Der Derian speaks about the future of International Theory and International Relations broadly, reminding us of the importance of 'quantizing' the discipline and the benefits this can bring.

Professor James Der Derian is the Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies and Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at University of Sydney (⁠@Usyd_ssps⁠). His research and teaching interests are in international security, information technology, international theory and documentary film.

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Professor Arne Westad (Yale University) talks with the Thinking Global team about what it is to 'think globally' when it comes to international politics, the potential for a new Cold War, Sino-US relations, developing states in the international order, and what it is to think about global politics 'in language'. Thinking Global is a podcast from E-International Relations – the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics.

Since the mid-2000s, Westad has been concerned with more general aspects of post-colonial and global history, as well as the modern history of China. The three key works from this period are The Global Cold War, which argues for ways of understanding the Soviet-American conflict in light of late- and post-colonial change in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean; Restless Empire, which discusses broad trends in China’s international history since 1750; and The Cold War: A World History, which summarizes the origins, conduct, and results of the conflict on a global scale. Today he is mainly interested in researching histories of empire and imperialism, first and foremost in Asia, but also world-wide. He is also trying to figure out how China’s late twentieth century economic reforms came into being and how their results changed the global economy. Professor Westad can be found on Twitter: @OAWestad.

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This week on Thinking Global, Professor Sarah Pink chats with Dr. Tusharika Deka (⁠@Tusharika24⁠) in this first episode of two about her journey into academia, interdisciplinary research, futures anthropology, digital ethnography, emerging technologies and much more.

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Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of FUTURES Hub and the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, where she engages and innovates interdisciplinary and international research approaches to offer fresh perspectives and realistic future visions and foresight about the role of human futures in shaping digital and net zero transitions. She has a joint appointment across the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture and the Faculty of Information Technology. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate, has over 25 years experiences of working with academic and industry research partners internationally, and frequently gives keynote and public lectures in academic and business environments.

She has published numerous academic books, including Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future, Doing Visual Anthropology. She has also directed several documentaries and is also known for her career-long focus on innovating new research and dissemination methodologies, and engaging design futures, digital, visual and sensory methods in interdisciplinary projects to engage with contemporary issues and challenges.

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On this week’s episode of Thinking Global, Professor Brent J. Steele (@UUtah) speaks with Kosta Kambouris about ontological security studies, its methods, its various factions, constructivism, and much more.

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Professor Brent J. Steele is the Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and University Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, and the co-editor in chief of Global Studies Quarterly. His most recent works include Vicarious Identity in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2021), with Chris Browning and Pertti Joenniemi, and Restraint in International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which co-won the ISA Theory section book award for 2020.

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On this week’s episode, Professor Nando Sigona (@nandosigona) speaks with Marianna Karakoulaki (@Faloulah), with the return of our Thinking Borders series. In this episode, Marianna and Professor Sigona discuss migration, borders, the power of narratives, the impact of Brexit on migration in the UK and much more.

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Professor Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement at the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at the University of Birmingham and is the Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity (IRIS). His research interests include: Irregularised migrant families in Europe (I-CLAIM), the politics of migration in the age of ‘Global Britain’ (MIGZEN), Intra-EU mobility, mixed-EU families, Eurochildren and Brexit, The EU and the refugee crisis (MEDMIG) among other themes. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, Senior Research Associate at ODI, and Visiting Professor at Utrecht University. Nando is also a founding editor of the journal Migration Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of Global Migration and Social Change book series for Bristol University Press. He is the author and/or co-editor of books and journal’s special issues including Becoming Adult on the Move (with Elaine Chase and Dawn Chatty, Palgrave), The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (with Fran Meissner and Steven Vertovec, Oxford University Press), Undocumented Migration (Roberto G. Gonzales, Martha C. Franco, and Anna Papoutsi, Polity), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Katy Long and Gil Loescher, Oxford University Press).

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On this week’s episode, Dr Nathan Critch chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Marianna (@Faloulah) about his new book The Politics of Public Inquiries: Crises, Containment and Contestation, public inquiries in the UK, their efficacy, their politicisation, and much more.

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Dr. Nathan Critch is a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on UK Governance and public policy. He is the author of The Politics of Public Inquiries: Crises, Containment and Contestation (Palgrave Macmillan). Nathan’s research has been published in British Politics and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, he has contributed to both The Conversation and LSE British Politics and Policy and has given testimony as an expert witness before the House of Lords Select Committee on Statutory Inquiries.

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This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Prof. Joseph S. Nye. Jr. chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Edward (@edwarddcurry5) about his latest book A Life In The American Century (Polity, 2024), soft power, international relations theory, US foreign policy, the current crisis in the Middle East, and the question of US decline.

Prof. Joseph. S. Nye Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School – @Kennedy_School @Harvard) is University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. His books include, but by no means limited to, Power and Interdependence (TBS, 1977) co-written with Robert O. Keohane; Soft Power: The Means To Success in World Politics (PublicAffairs, 2004); The Powers to Lead (Oxford University Press, 2008) ; The Future of Power (Hachette, 2011); Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era (Princeton University Press, 2013); Is the American Century Over? (Polity, 2015); Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Oxford University Press, 2020); and Soft Power and Great-Power Competition ([Open Access] Springer, 2023). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers.

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