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Sweating the “Small Stuff” of Progressive Internationalism
Image by dbking [CC BY 2.0] Discussions of liberal orientations in U.S. foreign policy often quickly escalate into debates about the use of force, hypocrisy, and the status of “The Liberal...
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The Flirtation Between Manila and Moscow is a Sign of the Times
Source: The Kremlin 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 writes that:...
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If COVID-19 is our first taste of international cooperation after American...
There are a variety of forces pushing the United States toward the exit for global hegemony, but none is quite so frustrating as the Trump administration’s simple abdication from exercising...
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Belated Book Release Announcement
I should probably announce that Exit from Hegemony was officially released on April 1st. The whole thing is somewhat surreal. The current context makes the book incredibly timely. It also makes it...
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WHO could’ve known?
Image © Yann Forget / Wikimedia Commons Scott already posted about Trump’s decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). Not long after Trump announced his decision, Beijing...
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Exit Happenings
Exit from Hegemony received its first two reviews in the last two weeks. John Ikenberry said some nice things in his capsule review at Foreign Affairs, and Daniel Larsion wrote about the book at The...
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Multipolar Populism
U.S. Department of State / Public domain Alex Cooley and I have a new piece in Foreign Policy about “multipolar populism.” Despite important regional, cultural, and political differences, many...
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From “Geopolitical Suicide” to Just Plain “Suicide”
Thomas Cole, “Destruction,” 1836 (from “Course of Empire” series) Rita Konaev has a great piece at the Washington Post on the Trump administration’s new policy for international students. If this...
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China’s stumbles won’t revive U.S. global hegemony
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...
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