Prophesies decrying the eschaton of the dollar have proven rash and delusional. Is this time different?
Tag Archives: International Relations
A Reaction to Rory Stewart on Intervention
A quick reaction after reading Rory Stewart’s “Can Intervention Work?”
What is happening?
A lot is happening very quickly. The initial conditions at the onset of the pandemic β in domestic and international political economy β are quite germane. And the extraordinary scale, scope, and speed of the monetary and fiscal responses carry a slew of long-term consequences β some known, some unknown; some intended, some not so much. Itβs all quite …
Globalization in the Age of American Primacy
A syllabus for an international political economy course I developed in 2016.
Favorite Books of 2018
Four of my favorite reads from 2018
The Discontinuities between the Generations in History
A few gems from Sir Herbert Butterfield’s 1971 Rede Lecture at Cambridge University
Father Joseph’s Folly
Some gems from Aldous Huxley’s “Grey Eminence” (1941)
Favorite Books of 2015
A dozen book recommendations
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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