Introductory lecture to the discipline of International Relations by Dr Patrick Theiner, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Recorded in late 2020. The lecture is fully captioned, please turn on the subtitles! == Timestamps == 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - What is International Relations? 06:35 - Levels of analysis 11:47 - Why IR theory? 15:45 - Dependent variables 18:18 - Independent variables 19:57 - The functions of theories