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Resisting the “Great Game”: Power-Political Dispatches from Fiji
This is part one of my travelog from Track II diplomacy in the Pacific. I have no idea how many of these I’ll have time to write but thanks for reading…
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AUKUS, Military Keynesianism, and the End of Democracy
Some time ago I mentioned I was working on an essay for an edited volume, and I shared an excerpt from it in the spirit of “workshopping.” I’m doing the…
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The Green New Deal, The Far Right, and War
A review of Christian Parenti’s prescient, forgotten classic
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Liberalism Has a Heather Cox Richardson Problem
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Asia’s Fate in Two Speeches
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The Neoconservatism of Democratic-Party Foreign Policy
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Manufacturing Fear...of a China War
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If Conservatives “Undermine” National Security, Then…
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Economic Statecraft with American Characteristics
The United States keeps pitching Asia regional deals for economic arrangements that are not politically viable at home.
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The Truth About Indo-Pacific Trade Folly
The Bloomberg editorial board published a searing critique of the Biden administration for failing to advance the “Indo-Pacific Economic Framework…
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China’s Sacrificed Social Democracy for State Capitalism
Hope everyone’s holidays are going well. I wanted to pass along some food for thought in the form of some very smart, contrarian research. The…
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The Reactionary Worldmaking of Counter-Insurgency, w/ Joseph Mackay
A special early drop for patrons of the newsletter! What separates conservatives from reactionaries, and where do they converge? What are the politics…
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What the Hell Happened at APEC?
Depends on your source
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Curated Nerd-Cool (Nov 18)
I promised to intermittently share what I find digging through the crates of life. Here’s the best and most interesting of what I came across the past…
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China's Probing for Stability at APEC
Does the US care?
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Global power politics, for the people. Un-Diplomatic is committed to thinking through a foreign policy opposed to oligarchs, militarists, and other scumbags who have undue influence over our dystopian world politics.
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