INR 2002 week 9 Review, Essay writing tips + more Critical Theory

This is a recording of my INR 2002 class Intro to International Relations. Week 9 gives more tips on reading and writing in academia then re-introduces the critical theories.
Chapters
1:50 Why academic articles are hard to read
4:26 How to read an academic article
6:00 How to find assumptions + propositions in an argument
7:10 Order of Operations for Essay Writing
10:25 Mongoose Example
12:19 Review/Intro to Critical Theories
12:55 Assumptions of Critical Theories
14:20 The Normative Part of Critical Theories
19:25 Post-structuralism
19:44 Difference between constructivism and critical theory
23:33 Why we still study Marxism
32:00 Positionality
32:12 Feminist IR theory
41:54 The most dubious democracy is better than dictatorship (or, the tragedy of focusing on the wrong things at the wrong time)