All Modules
These six modules represent the content I design and deliver in the IR course. Each corresponds to specific weeks in the AY 2025–2026 syllabus, noted on each module page.
Module 1 · Syllabus Week 2
Traditional IR Theories
Realism, liberalism, and constructivism — taught through contemporary cases and a live framing experiment.
Module 2 · Syllabus Week 3
Security Dilemmas & Nuclear Proliferation
The Waltz–Sagan debate, Sagan's three models, and why states pursue the bomb.
Module 3 · Syllabus Week 4
Non-Western IR Theory
Global IR, historical alternatives to Westphalian order, and decolonizing the discipline.
Module 4 · Syllabus Week 10
Nation, Race, and Gender
Nationalism as a technology of belonging — and the racialized, gendered boundaries it produces.
Module 5 · Syllabus Week 11
Society in a Global Age
Rodrik's trilemma, the globalization of rage, risk society, and liquid modernity.
Module 6 · Syllabus Week 12
Global Politics & the Anthropocene
Technology, ecology, migration, AI — and whose futures IR theory enables us to imagine.