Episode 13 - Damir Kovačević and Martin Claar: Part Two

Struggle to Understand

Today, in the second of three episodes, I continue my conversation with Dr. Damir Kovačević who is a professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire and with Dr. Martin Claar who is a lecturer of Political Science at Loyola University – Chicago. We build on our prior conversation and then move on to explore why norms fail, is compliance to these norms a result of domestic or international pressure, and the use of chemical agents in regulating domestic disturbances. Specifically, the issue raised by the use of tear gas asks us how should domestic governments handle civil unrest without succumbing to treating such unrest as acts of war. These topics are salient currently given the domestic state of politics in America but they are perennial topics for living within a liberal world order.

Introductory music was written by Alex Yoder. Find him here

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