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It’s not just the gaslighting, it’s also the chutzpah

By Dan Nexon

In iran

On September 10, 2019

John Bolton. Photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) Back during the Obama administration, opponents of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) peddled a lot of nonsense in their attempt to derail a pretty robust non-proliferation deal. Some hawks argued that the United States...

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Exit from Hegemony

By Dan Nexon

On September 3, 2019

So, um, yeah. I've been pretty AWOL for... a while. Among other things, Alex Cooley and I got the reviews back from Oxford University Press for our book. Because it.

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What’s a Brutal Murder or Two Between Friends?

By Dan Nexon

On June 22, 2019

April Brady / POMED [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)] In case you missed it, earlier this month the United Nations Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard issued a report on the killing of.

Geopolitical Suicide by a Thousand Cuts: Economic Interdependence Edition

By Dan Nexon

In General

On April 19, 2019

Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman have been doing important work on what they call "weaponized interdependence": Globalization has transformed the dynamics of security. In Rosa Brooks’ (2016) evocative description, over the last two decades war ‘became everything’ thanks to interdependence. Flows of finance, information and...

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The Great Unravelling? It’s “Lights, Cameras, Action!” again for American Geopolitical Suicide.

By Dan Nexon

On December 21, 2018

If you'd asked me about the fate of the American-led international system a few weeks ago, I would have said that Trump has done enormous damage to US leadership and.

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Progressive Foreign Policy, Again

By Dan Nexon

On September 5, 2018

I have a piece, "Toward a Neo-Progressive Foreign Policy: The Case for an Internationalist Left," at Foreign Affairs. It synthesizes some of my thoughts about what progressive foreign policy should look.

On American Hegemony, Part II: Liberal Order, What is the Concept Good For?

By Dan Nexon

In foreign policy

On July 29, 2018

People have been handwringing about the impending demise of the liberal international order for over a decade. But, since 2016, that handwringing has given way, at least in some circles, to full-scale panic. First...

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On American Hegemony, Part I

By Dan Nexon

On July 27, 2018

Note: as some of our readers know, I'm supposed to be writing a book (with Alexander Cooley) on the unravelling.

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Russian Electoral Intervention: Strategic Genius or Something Else?

By Dan Nexon

On July 19, 2018

The idea of Putin as a master strategist, like a sock missing its match, keeps showing up now and again. Certainly, when compared to.

No Victory in Europe

By Melissa Byrnes

In General

On June 7, 2018

Trump's Europe policy is a mess. First, there's this. And I thought our Ambassador's enthusiasm for empowering the German right-wing had set a new low in historical understanding... Once you get past these public displays of ignorance, Thomas Wright has a worthwhile read over at...

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