A syllabus for an international political economy course I developed in 2016.
Tag Archives: Foreign Policy
Favorite Books of 2018
Four of my favorite reads from 2018
Favorite Books of 2015
A dozen book recommendations
Reflections on a Winding Road to EM Private Equity
In late 2005, I would arrive at the office early and catch up on the latest news of sectarian violence in Iraq. It made for gruesome reading—bodies discovered in vacant houses, tied to chairs with clear evidence of torture. A favorite tool seemed to be power drills, which were used on knees, ankles, heads. There …
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Henry Kissinger’s World Order and the Question of Universal Values
On the tension among “universal” values, world order, and U.S. power
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Thoughts on James Fallows’s “Chickenhawk Nation”
In a Chickenhawk nation, policy still matters (featuring a case study on Somalia)
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Politics and Culture in International History
The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis. The search for world order has long been defined almost exclusively by the concepts of Western societies … But vast regions of the world have never shared and only acquiesced in the Western concept of order … [The United States must think] …
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Entropy: The Defining Characteristic of Global Affairs
Markets are pricing for utopia but is tectonic change afoot?
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