Conversation 6 – Alexander Wendt

Host Marsha Barnhart welcomes Alexander Wendt of Ohio State University to talk about Sovereignty and UFOs.

Dr. Wendt is Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1989, and taught at Yale University, Dartmouth College, and then the University of Chicago before coming to Ohio State in 2004. His research in political science focuses on philosophical aspects of world politics, and he is well known in his field for his book, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which won the International Studies
Association’s award for ‘Best Book of the Decade’ in 2006.  He also wrote, in 2008, a provocative paper entitled Sovereignty and the UFO with Dr. Raymond Duvall in the peer reviewed academic journal, Political Theory. Dr. Wendt recently published his latest book, Quantum Mind and Social
Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology.

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