Author: Dan Nexon

Dan Nexon is an Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. HIs new co-authored book, Exit from Hegemony: the Unravelling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press), is due out in 2020.

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Grifters to the left of me, Liars to the right

By Dan Nexon

In General

On January 17, 2020

Lev Parnas is a crook and a liar; he played a non-trivial role in spreading the web of lies at the heart of the Orange Extortion scandal. Marcy Wheeler writes that: Over and over, we see Parnas feeding very well placed people links to (usually) frothy media stories, many of those stories based on false […]

foreign policy

Adults in the Room

By Dan Nexon

On January 12, 2020

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foreign policy

Assuming a Spherical Cow

By Dan Nexon

On January 4, 2020

Milk production at a dairy farm was low, so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking for help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physi

Waxing Right-Wing Nationalism in India

By Dan Nexon

In General

On December 22, 2019

I don’t know about you, but I find that America’s descent into ethnonationalism tends to occupy so much of my mental bandwidth that I have trouble keeping up with similar developments elsewhere. One of those “elsewheres” is India, where the BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned to the aggressive promotion of […]

foreign policy

American Geopolitical Suicide Watch: Diplomatic Capital, Again

By Dan Nexon

On December 8, 2019

I’ve written before about the Trump administration’s reckless and dangerous assault on America’s diplomatic power. Our diplomats are the lifeblood of extensive international network

Trump

What (not) to do about a Racist and Antisemitic President

By Dan Nexon

On December 8, 2019

As you may know, Donald Trump recently appeared in front of the Israeli American Council and said some things. Here’s the Washington Post headline: Starting at around the ninth paragraph of that

U.S. Market Power and Regulatory Capacity

By Dan Nexon

In political economy

On November 18, 2019

Abraham Newman and I have a new article in Foreign Policy on progressive policy and the use of American market power. We begin by discussing China’s ham-handed response to Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of Hong Kong democracy activists. The key point is that it fits a broader patten. China routinely […]

international affairs

There isn’t One Way of Doing Liberal International Order, and that Might be Cause for Alarm

By Dan Nexon

On November 4, 2019

This is a longish post from that I put up yesterday at the book website. Regular readers will notice that I hit on a number of themes, as well as specific ideas, that I’ve developed at LGM. Many

Hegemonic Unravelling

The Flirtation Between Manila and Moscow is a Sign of the Times

By Dan Nexon

On November 3, 2019

I’ve got a newish, short piece up at the website for Exit from Hegemony. As is my wont, I’m cross-posting it here. In The National Interest, Richard Javad Heydarian wri

The Case for Economic Anxiety

By Dan Nexon

In economy

On November 2, 2019

What if it’s 2008, but with corporate debt instead of mortgage debt and comparatively little room for monetary stimulus? That’s what my colleague, Andreas Kern, argues in a piece at The Conversation. All American companies are currently sitting on a record US$15.5 trillion in debt, equivalent to about two-thirds of U.S. GDP. Unfortunately, this debt […]

Trump

Canine Bites Man, Trump Brags about Classified Material

By Dan Nexon

On October 28, 2019

I don’t really have any penetrating insight on this matter. He’s done it before. He’ll do it again. Because he’s not just unqualified for his job, he’s anti-qualified. Wh

foreign policy

“All Roads Lead to Putin”

By Dan Nexon

On October 21, 2019

There’s something really wrong going on here. President Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine for information he could use against political rivals came as he was being urged to adopt a hostile v

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