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This week in #ChicagoIntroIR2019, we're wrapping up the course's core material by thinking about "human extinction" -- a light and low key topic 😉

What are we reading to help us think about extinction?

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There are no required readings. But I highly recommend gaining some intellectual perspective on the *idea* of human extinction by reading @nemocentric in this blog post from @JHIdeas

jhiblog.org/2019/10/21/imm…
There are a host of threats that could bring about human extinction. This is something the folks at @FHIOxford, @CSERCambridge, & @FLIxrisk think about. A LOT.
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This week in #ChicagoIntroIR2019, we're wrapping up our discussion of violence in international politics.

What are we reading to help us think about this topic?

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First, as listed on the syllabus, there are some REQUIRED readings from @IAJournal_CH's special issue on 100 years since the Treaty of Versailles.
One piece from the @IAJournal_CH special issue is by @LawDavF, who discusses changing perceptions in the costliness of great power war

academic.oup.com/ia/article-abs…
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This week in #ChicagoIntroIR2019, we're talking about Anarchy and Structure (oh, and "isms").

What are we reading to help us think about these topics?

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First, as listed on the syllabus, we have a couple REQUIRED readings from @IAJournal_CH's special issue on 100 years since the Treaty of Versailles. They are...
...a piece by Yuen Foong Khong on "prestige" and "hierarchy" in world politics...

academic.oup.com/ia/article-abs…
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Impeachment is on the minds of many students.

How am I going to cover it in #ChicagoIntroIR2019?

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Needless to say, I'm not covering the intricacies or domestic political process of impeachment itself.

That's best left for Intro to American Politics (also taught this term!). Plus, there is this nifty primer from @byamberphillips of @washingtonpost

washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
In an international relations course, there are (at least) four ways one could approach this topic
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Excited to once again teach "Intro to International Relations" (#ChicagoIntroIR2019) this fall at @UChicago!

Added a number of new features to the course and tweaked the content.

👇is a summary. IR educators, feel free to borrow!
First, a bit about the content.

I start the course by emphasizing the World War I origins of the discipline, something I summarized in this thread:

To drive home how the discipline emerged out of our efforts to understand WWI and the general turmoil (both political and economic) that transpired over the subsequent 20 years (call out to E.H. Carr), each lecture opens with an event from WWI, the interwar period, or WWII.
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Did the US promise NOT to expand @NATO? 🤷‍♂️

Even if it hadn't, expanding @NATO was far from a given in the early 1990s. The Clinton Administration struggled with what to do and how to do it.

@e_sarotte's new @Journal_IS piece explores how it happened: mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.11…
And some of the documents used in the piece (and that @e_sarotte worked to declassify) are available via the @NSArchive

nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…
These documents are amazing and will contribute to 👇assignment in #ChicagoIntroIR2019

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"Armageddon" was just a movie....right?

washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07…
In the article @astroduff

"stressed the importance of investing in a `global dedicated approach' to detecting asteroids because `sooner or later there will be one with our name on it. It’s just a matter of when, not if'"

Sounds like an international cooperation problem to me 🤔
At the end of #ChicagoIntroIR2018, we discussed existential risks to humanity (h/t @FHIOxford). We focused on the possibility of global responses to climate change and AI management.

Looks like asteroid detection will be added to #ChicagoIntroIR2019 in the fall!
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