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Anti-China, Anti-Worker, Anti-Environment: MAGA 2024’s Strategy is Here
Depending where you get your news about the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) strike, you might think it has nothing to do with democracy, a green economy, or…
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The Cost of Foreign Wars on American Democracy
Just passing on an academic resource that speaks to many themes and sub-themes of this newsletter. The article is, “They’re Still There, He’s All Gone…
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Republicans Want Two Wars With China
The boom-boom kind, and the let’s-take-away-rights-from-Americans kind
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Manufacturing Fear...of a China War
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Fractured Progressivism, China, and the Climate Left
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Is “Out-Competing” China Worth Destroying the Global Economy?
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Blow Up TSMC? How Washington’s 'Deterrence' Talk Sacrifices Taiwan
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Two Thoughts About Gold-Bar Bob Menendez
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How the Pacific Sees Great-Power Rivalry
Dame Meg Taylor just published a report with the Asia Society Policy Institute that’s chock full of insights. While the Pacific is a very diverse place…
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Inequality, IR Theory, and the Imperial Blind Spot
Listen now (23 mins) | This is a special drop for patrons of the newsletter only. I don’t plan on releasing it through the public podcast. Basically, I…
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Biden’s $40 Billion Gaffe in the Pacific Islands
The Biden administration has been courting political leaders from various Pacific-Island nations in a bid to “counter China.” The Pacific deserves…
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Debating the Origins of the “New Cold War"
There’s a new book out that’s been making the rounds in leftist circles. It’s called The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China, From Kosovo…
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Two Thoughts About Gold-Bar Bob Menendez
With great power comes great corruption
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W.E.B. Du Bois’s International Thought, w/ Adom Getachew
Listen now (64 mins) | A special early drop for patrons of the newsletter! Adom Getachew is one of the great thinkers of our time. Her 2019 book…
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Kurt Campbell and Washington’s Primacy Pathology: Part III
This is Part III in our mini-series on Kurt Campbell’s Washington. Be sure to check out Part I and Part II. The most successful foreign policy people…
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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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