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Cheap Talk

Cheap Talk is an every-week-or-so international relations podcast with Jeff Kaplow and Marcus Holmes, professors of government at William & Mary.

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The Real Victims Are the Gala-Goers

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2021/09/25

Judging the US-Russia summit; the risks of failed summit diplomacy; AUKUS; countering China versus nonproliferation policy; nuclear submarines; the role of precedent and norms in international relations; and Marcus makes a note in his Google calendar

Maybe Quibbles To Be Had There

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2021/09/15

Cheap Talk makes its triumphant return for season 2: The US withdrawal from Afghanistan; reputations for resolve in international relations; foreign policy as a partisan issue; the legacy of 9/11; and Marcus didn’t know what to do, so he went to class

Plucked From Obscurity

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2020/11/10

Facebook Is a Criminal Enterprise

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2020/11/01

Freedom From the Burden of Explanation

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2020/10/26

That's Just Good Business

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2020/10/19

There Were Bales of Hay and It Was a Nice Day Out

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2020/10/11

Taking diplomacy seriously; the Cold War ends with a fizzle; summit diplomacy; Jimmy Carter saves the day; and Marcus recommends an excellent article in International Studies Quarterly.Further reading:Marcus Holmes and Keren Yarhi-Milo. 2017. “The Psychological Logic of Peace Summits: How Empathy Shapes Outcomes of Diplomatic Negotiations.” International Studies Quarterly 61(1): 107–122.Jeffrey M. Kaplow. 2016. “The negotiation calculus: Why parties to civil conflict refuse to talk.” International

We Learned Not a Whole Lot

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2020/10/05

Continuity of government; interpreting foreign policy signals in a crisis; decision-making in the loss domain; benefiting from chaos; and Marcus worries about the lingering effects of COVID

Our Expectations Are Too High

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2020/09/27

Whether international security institutions matter; power politics; using institutions to avoid taking action; constraining versus screening; and Marcus feels bad for institutions sometimes

Outside the Bounds of Reasonable Behavior

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2020/09/20

The puzzle of nuclear non-use; strategic calculations versus the nuclear taboo; and Marcus uses the word deontological in a sentence

Their Own Weird Physics Language

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2020/09/14

Rationalism versus political psychology; whether the bargaining model is useful; the role of individuals in IR; and Marcus has a couple more things to say

Not That Anyone Asked

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2020/09/07

The COVID-19 pandemic, institutions, China, signposts to a post-pandemic future, and Marcus predicts a new world order

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