foreign policy
I am "attending" the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association next week. By "attending" I mean that I am cancelling my tickets and my hotel room and participating.
How could we keep you waiting with bated breath? Part II is now up. Get your Part I here.
John Ikenberry is one of the most influential scholars of "liberal international order." It's likely that he, along with Dan Deudney, is responsible for popularizing the phrase. John's most recent.
Scott's post about the so-called "Afghanistan Papers" provides a good excuse to remind everyone that the recriminations, deflections, and finger-pointing are just getting started. It's important to keep that mind.
I've previously written about "great-power conflict" as a framework for U.S. foreign policy, so it's no secret that I'm not a fan. There's a new piece in The American Prospect.
A recent episode of bloggingheads.tv features John Ikenberry and Patrick Porter. They discuss the Biden administration, liberal international order, and the "Rooseveltian Internationalism" article that I wrote about a few.
Alex Cooley and I published a piece at Foreign Affairs which discusses how international order is becoming more or less "liberal" across three dimensions: political rights, economic arrangements, and forms.
A Chinese Su-27 Flanker fighter makes a fly by while the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, visits with members of the Chinese Air Force.