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

By Dan Nexon

In foreign policy

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 national security, some of that damage is permanent, but much of the infrastructure remains capable...

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The U.S. Senate’s Historic Vote on Yemen, with Some Historical Perspective

By Dan Nexon

On December 1, 2018

On Wednesday, the Senate voted to advance a resolution invoking the War.

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National Security as Magical Thinking

By Dan Nexon

On October 21, 2018

Trump just announced that the United States.

USA and KSA: “Already going to hell, just pumping that gas”

By Christa Blackmon

In Culture , foreign policy

On October 19, 2018

It is official: dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been killed but the US shouldn't do anything about it because we have billions of dollars worth of weapons to sell to Saudi Arabia. That is, after all, what Jesus really wants. The back and forth...

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The Rise of Progressive Internationalism?

By Dan Nexon

On October 17, 2018

Derek Robertson has a story in Politico which argues that Bernie Sanders is on the leading edge of Democratic foreign policy. I think it's probably correct, and it quotes me, so.

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Trumpism and the Sovereignty Paradox

By Dan Nexon

On October 10, 2018

Believe it or not, it wasn't that long ago that Trump issued his "sovereignty and patriotism" speech at the.

The Opposite of Neoconservativism is not Isolationism

By Dan Nexon

In foreign policy

On September 25, 2018

In my recent Foreign Affairs article on progressive foreign policy, I wrote about seizing a middle ground between "liberal internationalists" and "anti-hegemonists." I struggled a bit with what to call the further left, but I knew from the outset that...

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Meeting the Challenge of the Transnational Right

By Dan Nexon

On September 15, 2018

I've been arguing for some time that progressives too often have their heads in the sand about the transnational dimensions of right-wing extremism, kleptocracy, and oligarchy. This was an important.

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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.