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