international affairs

China’s stumbles won’t revive U.S. global hegemony

By Dan Nexon

On August 18, 2022

China might be headed toward a recession. Against all expectation (not a single economist polled by Bloomberg had predicted it), the People’s Bank of China has cut interest rates. The ease was only by 10 basis points, to the bank’s one-year lending rate, but it was still...

foreign policy , international affairs

What Stopped Trump from Pulling out of NATO?

By Dan Nexon

On November 4, 2021

Sean Gallup / Getty Images One of the central activities of academic blogs – or what's left of them these days – is for people to promote their books and.

international affairs

Conflict in Israel & Palestine

By Dan Nexon

On May 11, 2021

Jonathan Katz, as far as I'm concerned, expertly sums up the moral calculus: While watching these events unfold from afar, I try to keep two related things in mind. One,.

It’s not a post-Trump world, it’s a post-Bush-Obama-Trump one

By Dan Nexon

In foreign policy , international affairs

On January 30, 2021

I'm sure there are non-MAGA analysts who think that the United States can just move on from the Trump Administration, but I haven't come across any in the wild. Most recognize that Trump's toxic blend of narcissism, ignorance, and personal corruption damaged U.S. domestic politics...

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

Адміністрація Президента України [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)] This is a longish post from that I put up yesterday at the book website. Regular readers will notice that I hit on.

General , international affairs

“Walk-on? That’s a walk-off, that’s what this is.”

By Shakezula

On December 2, 2018

Update: If the clicking the image doesn't work try this: https://youtu.be/JtWVM62DjbA. Will the United States of America ever.

North Korean Preferences

By Dan Nexon

In international affairs

On May 1, 2018

Over at Politico, Van Jackson provides a fascinating discussion of the possible underlying preferences that drive Kim Jung Un's recent overtures. Jackson argues that Kim has more concrete goals that are evident in North Korea’s word and deed, and that happen to also propel North Korea...