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Why looking back too far won't help with today's problems
Manage episode 273843472 series 2801701
When teaching Intro to International Relations, Prof. Poast uses no ancient texts or ancient examples. Is he being provocative? Or, is he offering IR-Lite to save students from having to learn to think in order to avoid the anachronistic reading of the texts? And, in a time when the current Whitehouse would take us back to Sparta, can the idea of a "League of Nations" ever work?
50 episodes
Manage episode 273843472 series 2801701
When teaching Intro to International Relations, Prof. Poast uses no ancient texts or ancient examples. Is he being provocative? Or, is he offering IR-Lite to save students from having to learn to think in order to avoid the anachronistic reading of the texts? And, in a time when the current Whitehouse would take us back to Sparta, can the idea of a "League of Nations" ever work?
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