Alliances with Prof Paul Poast | S01E14 | Political Reality
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
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/
