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Vendulka Kubálková International Relations

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131 teaching videos for the study of international relations.

Professor Vendulka Kubálková

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131 teaching videos on the theory and practice of international relations, recorded for students of the subject. The full list of them can be downloaded below.

The List of 131 Videos (PDF · 156 KB)

For a complete list of videos and access instructions, refer to V. Kubálková, 2026, Orbis Pictus, pp. 6–11 (see below) and p. 39.

Some videos are listed in more than one section; the cross-references mark them.

I. General Introduction

3 videos

  • 3:041. About International Relations Plus (IR+)
  • 10:572. A New Globe for the Classroom? A Plurality of Worldviews, Theories, Values, Beliefs, and Expectations: Against Parochialism. How to Study the World?
  • 6:133. World Stage Actors and Audience, Theatrum Mundum

II. Around the World’s Some Main Issues in 100 Minutes

11 videos

  • 8:011. Trouble in the World — Inequality, Environmentsee also IV/1
  • 14:152. Peace of Westphalia and Beyond
  • 12:243. War — What One Nuclear Bomb Dropped on Manhattan Would Do
  • 18:314. What Was the Soviet Union, What Was the Cold War
  • 11:065. What Is the Westsee also V/6
  • 4:036. Globalization New Erasee also XII/1
  • 12:227. China 3 — Globalizing Belt and Road Initiative, “Beijing Consensus”
  • 11:528. Preparing for the Nuclear War — The Music of Destruction
  • 4:099. Misuse of Information, from Past Totalitarian Regimes to Today’s Practices
  • 12:3210. How We Get Knowledge, Invention of Press, Digital Era
  • 13:5611. Return of Religions Beyond Huntington’s Civilizations

III. The Cold War (East–West): The USSR

4 videos

  • 18:311. What Was the Soviet Union, What Was the Cold War
  • 18:092. Gorbachev’s Plans for the Soviet Union and the World
  • 4:333. Requiem for the Soviet Union
  • 8:294. Various Explanations of the End of the Cold War

IV. Global South/Global North, Development, Modernization

8 videos

  • 8:011. Grotesque Inequality — Trouble in the World — Inequality, Environmentsee also II/1
  • 4:252. Modernization Efforts — Running Out of Time
  • 9:063. Modernization Efforts in Cartoons
  • 16:224. Modernization — Theories Dependency, World System
  • 6:505. Modernization Efforts, the Role of UN
  • 8:276. Development Thinking over Time — A Bigger Picture, Part 1: Overview
  • 8:547. Development Thinking over Time — A Bigger Picture, Part 2: In Different Disciplines
  • 13:008. Development Thinking over Time — A Bigger Picture, Part 3: Washington or Beijing Consensus

V. Modernity

6 videos

  • 14:421. Modernity in the Context of Historical Eras, Multiple Modernities, Shmuel Eisenstadt
  • 5:342. Modernity — Science and Faith — Looking at Michelangelo’s Creation Fresco in the Vatican, Part 1
  • 5:503. Modernity — Science and Faith — Looking at Michelangelo’s Creation Fresco in the Vatican, Part 2
  • 8:504. Modernity — Science and Faith — Looking at Michelangelo’s Creation Fresco in the Vatican, Part 3
  • 11:055. Back to Fresco — Language in IR, Problems with the Positivist Approach
  • 11:066. What Is the Westsee also II/5

VI. Philosophy, Knowledge, History

15 videos

  • 6:341. Lessons from a Philosopher, Part 1: Introduction
  • 10:172. Lessons from a Philosopher, Part 2: 101
  • 4:243. Lessons from a Philosopher, Part 3: 201
  • 3:164. Lessons from a Philosopher, Part 4: Conclusion
  • 16:575. What Do We Think We Know
  • 8:296. Various Explanations of the End of the Cold War
  • 22:147. Pearls of Wisdom in the Past
  • 14:048. Plato’s Cave Allegory About Knowledge
  • 12:329. How We Get Knowledge, Invention of Press, Digital Era
  • 11:3710. Holism and Reductionism — Fragmentation or Holistic View of the World
  • 12:2611. Techniques and Tools — Metaphor
  • 6:4612. Techniques and Tools — Frames
  • 8:3913. Thucydides, Might Rather than Right
  • 13:5614. Return of Religions Beyond Huntington’s Civilizations
  • 18:2315. Foucault, History of Present

VII. Descartes

5 videos

  • 8:361. René Descartes, Part 1
  • 6:172. René Descartes, Part 2 — And God, Religion and Islam
  • 14:503. René Descartes, Part 3 — Binaries
  • 8:504. René Descartes, Part 4 — Neurologists, Cognitive Scientists Challenge
  • 2:335. René Descartes, Part 5: René on an Airplane, a Joke

VIII. University

6 videos

  • 6:521. University — Where We Get Knowledge, Part 1: Why Go to University
  • 7:592. University — Where We Get Knowledge, Part 2: Where the Terms Associated with University Come From
  • 17:483. University — Where We Get Knowledge, Part 3: From the Middle Ages via Germany to US
  • 11:064. University — Where We Get Knowledge, Part 4: Social Sciences in University System
  • 8:515. University — Where We Get Knowledge, Part 5: Post-Modernist Critique of University
  • 4:326. Renaissance Man and University Departments

IX. Contested Terms

7 videos

  • 2:281. Globalization Introductionsee also XII/2
  • 9:332. Paradigm
  • 9:473. Left and Right
  • 7:144. Critical and R. W. Cox
  • 5:265. Hegemony, Part 1: Good or Bad
  • 9:386. Hegemony, Part 2: Gramsci and Soviet View
  • 9:137. Hegemony, Part 3: Gramsci, Cox, Onuf

X. Religions, Civilizations, Inter-Civilizational, Intercultural Dialogues

9 videos

  • 13:561. Return of Religions Beyond Huntington’s Civilizations
  • 8:552. Civilizations, Cultures — Inter-Civilizational, Intercultural Dialogue, Part 2 — The Role of UN
  • 11:003. Faith and Reason Binary — Lennox vs Dawkins
  • 9:004. Religions in the World — A Quick Overview
  • 7:145. Religions of the World — Origin, History, Demography, Geopolitics
  • 16:076. Abrahamic Religions
  • 23:327. Christian Realists in IR over Time
  • 14:158. Peace of Westphalia and Beyondsee II/2
  • 12:209. Peace of Westphalia and Beyond — And Islam in 1648

XI. Marxist Legacy

In 4 parts

  • 7:441. Looking for Marx and Marxism
  • 9:202. Marxism Pedigree
  • 14:013. Who Remembered Marx’s Birthdays
  • 8:474. Why Marxism

XII. Globalization

In 10 parts

  • 4:031. Globalization New Erasee also II/6
  • 2:282. Contested Terms — Globalization Introduction
  • 12:293. Globalization Introduction
  • 8:564. Review Session of Basics
  • 5:145. Globalization, Part 5: Five-Minute Walk Through the World
  • 17:126. Globalization, Thomas Friedman’s Neoliberal View
  • 12:137. Globalization, First Accounts
  • 13:068. Globalization Theories, Part 1
  • 11:359. Globalization Theories, Part 2
  • 4:1210. Amitav Acharya, New View on Globalization

XIII. China

3 videos

  • 12:271. China — History and Culture
  • 21:442. China — Translating Chinese Concepts of International Relations
  • 12:223. China — Globalizing Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing Consensus

XIV. IR Foundational Concepts, Narratives, Myths

7 videos

  • 14:151. Peace of Westphalia and Beyondsee II/2
  • 4:212. Peace of Westphalia, How We Teach It
  • 7:383. Anarchy, Leviathan
  • 2:254. Foundational Concepts — Levels of Analysis
  • 17:385. Foundational Concepts and Stories — The Three (or More) Debates and Turns
  • 11:096. Foundational Concepts and Stories — “Three Traditions” — Hedley Bull and Martin Wight
  • 5:447. Foundational Concepts and Stories — “Three Images”, Kenneth Waltz

XV. International Relations (IR) Discipline

5 groups of videos, 41 total videos

1. IR Introduction (10)

  • 13:531. US International Relations Discipline — To Global — Introduction
  • 4:142. US International Relations Discipline Timeline
  • 10:003. Rationality and Rational Choice, Brief Sketch
  • 7:384. Anarchy, Leviathan, Sovereignty
  • 6:045. Stanley Hoffmann — IR: National or International?
  • 14:006. Types of Theories and Theorists: Explaining and Understanding
  • 9:217. Positivism, Neopositivism — Who Is the IR Discipline Grandfather
  • 11:088. What Is Theory: CSI World
  • 5:539. US International Relations Toolkit
  • 13:0110. What Did Morgenthau Really Saysee also VI/6/6

2. The English School (4)

  • 9:571. The English School, the Anglo-American Origins
  • 7:092. Difference Between English and American
  • 8:463. The English School — Basic Terms
  • 11:094. Three Traditions — Hedley Bull and Martin Wight

3. Realism in IR (5)

  • 12:551. IR Realism, Idealism, Part 1
  • 9:562. Realism as Core of IR, Part 2
  • 5:403. Realism Varieties — Classical
  • 16:294. Realism Varieties — Structural (Waltz), Foreign Policy Analysis and Neoclassical Realism
  • 23:325. Christian Realists in IR

4. US IR as Political Science (9)

  • 13:531. US International Relations Discipline — Introduction
  • 13:412. IR Types of Theories — Let’s Ask Prof. James Rosenau
  • 11:083. What Is Theory: “CSI World” — Hempel’s Deductive-Nomological Model
  • 9:214. Positivism, Neopositivism — Who Is IR Discipline Grandfather — Positivism, Neopositivism
  • 9:325. Neorealism — Neoliberalism — “Neo-Neo”, Part 1: Introduction
  • 8:066. Neo-Neo — Part 2: Path to Neo-Neo Debate
  • 25:347. Neo-Neo, Part 3: Debate
  • 4:368. Neo-Neo — Part 4: Coloring IR
  • 7:149. Neo-Neo — Part 5: Prof. Mearsheimer on Liberalism

5. US IR as Political Science: Critique (6)

  • 5:191. IR Satiric Look
  • 8:512. Ants as Social Beings
  • 15:303. No Ideology in IR?
  • 4:094. Imitating Natural Sciences
  • 7:145. Prof. Mearsheimer on Liberalism
  • 13:016. What Did Morgenthau Really Saysee also XV/10

Misc. Videos Made by the Author for ISA

4 videos