This is a guest post by friend of the blog, Jamie Mayerfeld. I’ve been sitting on an unfinished draft piece on the same subject: the remarkably bad DSA IC statement on Ukraine. So when I saw tha
I find it difficult to name a single defining characteristic of the Trump presidency. It was, after all, a nonstop parade of terrible. If pressed to choose, though, I’d probably mention the soul
This was spreading around Twitter and I hadn’t seen it in awhile. It really does have a claim to be the most bizarre and amazing advertisement in television history. By the late 90s, Gorbachev w
I have a brand new piece online at Foreign Affairs on why I’m extremely skeptical of the idea of “Great-Power Competition” as a strategic framework. Great powers compete. The relativ
Jeffery Stacey and I have a new piece in Foreign Affairs called “Fear of Trump’s Populism Might Save American Alliances.” Our basic argument is that: Biden cannot easily undo this damage
Yes, I’m still alive. Alex and I are speaking at noon (ET) today, “at” the Hertie School “in” Berlin. It’s open to the public. It’s an iteration of the book t
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 idea of Putin as a master strategist, like a sock missing its match, keeps showing up now and again. Certainly, when compared to Trump Putin might as well be the second-coming of Otto Von Bismarc