The great and late Charles Tilly (via Duck of Minerva) interviewed and recorded in 8 videos. Well known by many students of IR (who have probably never even read a single book or article by Tilly) for the pithy quote: ‘War makes the state and the state makes war.’
Interview origins, Vendee 1: process itself rather than comparative statics - summing up Emirbayer AJS, Vol.103 No.1, 1997 (PDF) in one sentence? LOL
Vendee 2: Regrets over introducing the term ‘political disturbances’. Ah the ‘happy’ problems of the brilliant and the influential. Definite survivorship bias here; lots of academics who actively want to introduce new terms into debates but (thankfully?) don’t succeed. Reminded me how Jack Snyder coming up with and then disowning the term/concept of ’strategic culture’ which has accreted a huge literature around it since his RAND monograph.


















































