Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 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 talk, but with some discussion of what our argument means...
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I've mentioned the VOA before. Yesterday word leaked that the propagandist that Trump put in charge of the VOA plans to let the visas of foreign journalist lapse. In effect,.
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Ishaan Tharoor has a very good discussion of the broader context of Trump's meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda. Though accustomed to lectures from Brussels, Duda and his allies are hoping for a boost ahead of a June 28 presidential election. He faces a tougher-than-expected...
Yesterday the White House ordered the U.S. embassy in Seoul to remove its #BlackLivesMatter banner, as well as a Pride flag that the embassy put up in May. In some.
Alexander Cooley and I have a new piece in the July/August issue Foreign Affairs which skims some of the key arguments of Exit from Hegemony. Does this mean that we've.
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 contemporary populists embrace multipolarity—an international system composed of multiple great powers rather than one or two superpowers....
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.
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 offered its.
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 kind of awkward to promote the book; most of the talks Alex Cooley...
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.
There's a lot of uncertainty right now, whether about the economy, the pandemic, or the general political situation. We have a president who lies and deflects, making the inevitable noise.