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. It’s all quite …

Globalization in the Age of American Primacy

A syllabus for an international political economy course I developed in 2016.

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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