Sitemap - 2023 - Un-Diplomatic
Sogavare's Reverse “China Card” is Absurd
The Competition Metaphor in International Relations
Making Sense of Peak Chinese Aid
John Fetterman, the Steel Fetish, and Economic Nationalism
Are Working-Class Interests Progressive?
Curated Nerd-Cool (Holiday edition)
An Interview on Peace, Polarity, and the Contentious Politics of Militarism
Silicon Valley’s Galactic Colony Fetish, w/ Alina Utrata
If We Could Pay $35 Billion to Ensure an Entire Nation Survives Climate Change, Would We Do It?
The MAGA Presidency and the Pentagon
The Blue Pacific’s Organically Progressive Strategic Culture
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Garlic?
Part IV: Resisting the “Great Game”: Power-Political Dispatches from Fiji
Part III: Resisting the “Great Game”: Power-Political Dispatches from Fiji
Part II: Resisting the “Great Game”: Power-Political Dispatches from Fiji
Resisting the “Great Game”: Power-Political Dispatches from Fiji
AUKUS, Military Keynesianism, and the End of Democracy
The Green New Deal, The Far Right, and War
Economic Statecraft with American Characteristics
The Truth About Indo-Pacific Trade Folly
China’s Sacrificed Social Democracy for State Capitalism
The Reactionary Worldmaking of Counter-Insurgency, w/ Joseph Mackay
What the Hell Happened at APEC?
China's Probing for Stability at APEC
A Grand Strategy Clinging to “the End of History”
The Blue Pacific Has a Sphere-of-Influence Problem
The Neoconservatism of Democratic-Party Foreign Policy
Grand Strategies of the Left, Out Now! Part II
Pacific Imperialism and the Jeopardy Thesis
Grand Strategies of the Left, Out Now! PART I
Death of the Think-Tanker w/ Matthew Petti
From Gaza to the Pacific, All Oppression is Connected
Deterrence is the National Security of Fools...
What Jake Sullivan Didn’t Want You To See
Twitter Wants Me to Hate Hillary Clinton
Foxconned: Great-Power Politics is a "Capitalist Peace” Mutation
Thinking About Think Tanks And Progressive Politics
State Department Official Resigns
A “Pacific Peace Zone” Requires More Than Vibes
Has New Zealand’s “End of History” Era Ended?
Dear White House: What the Holy F*ck
If Conservatives “Undermine” National Security, Then…
Notes on Gaza, Mowing Grass, and Nationalist Violence
Frontier Imperialism and Post-BLM International Relations, w/ Robbie Shilliam
Whose Side is the New York Times On?
The Peace Aesthetic: Code Pink’s Brown Politics
Liberalism Has a Heather Cox Richardson Problem
Anti-China, Anti-Worker, Anti-Environment: MAGA 2024’s Strategy is Here
The Cost of Foreign Wars on American Democracy
Republicans Want Two Wars With China
How the Pacific Sees Great-Power Rivalry
Inequality, IR Theory, and the Imperial Blind Spot
Biden’s $40 Billion Gaffe in the Pacific Islands
Debating the Origins of the “New Cold War"
Two Thoughts About Gold-Bar Bob Menendez
W.E.B. Du Bois’s International Thought, w/ Adom Getachew
Kurt Campbell and Washington’s Primacy Pathology: Part III
The Two Faces of China’s Economic Story
Modi’s Hindu Nationalism is a Threat to International Peace
Kurt Campbell and Washington’s Primacy Pathology: Part II
Disentangling Chinese Ethnonationalism and Jingoism
Kurt Campbell and Washington’s Primacy Pathology: Part I
Reading Elon Musk’s Statement on China
Speech: Rivalry as a Struggle Against Order
Are Numbers the Left-Liberal's Love Language?
When 9/11 Got Hip-Hop, It Killed Dissent
James Baldwin Versus “Great-Power Competition”
After China’s Decline: 3 Futures for the National-Security State
Will the CHIPS Act Make American Semiconductor Manufacturing Great Again?
Can Soros’s Open Society Unlock Progressive Worldmaking?
Is it too late to prevent a "great-power competition” police state?
The Writers' Strike, Global Film, and Entertainment Multipolarity, w/ Kevin Fox
A Critical Primer on AUKUS: Three Must-Reads
The Fentanyl-China Conspiracy Theory
Crisis of Inequality Meets the "Post-Neoliberal" Illusion
US Industrial Policy and Southeast Asia: Interview w/ Kevin Chen
Is “Out-Competing” China Worth Destroying the Global Economy?
A 'Global Tariff Plan' That Spares Nobody
Live Show! China, US Grand Strategy, and the Inequality Problem
The GOP Primary Debate Proves One Thing: They’re All Shades of Ramaswamy
Worried About Chinese Hegemony? You’ve Misdiagnosed Everything
Patriarchy and the Cult of Coercion
Japan-South Korea-US is Not the Alliance You Think
Can "Pool-Party Progressivism" Win?
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Geopolitical Fantasy is the World’s Nightmare
Fighting Pentagon Graft, w/ William Hartung and Julia Gledhill
Tankies Versus Democratic Progress
Why Workers Hate Biden’s Economy: An Immiseration Index
Notes From a Career in Progressive Foreign Policy
AIPAC and Oligarchs Versus the Progressive Movement
Two Terrifying Things About Trump’s Indictment...
Why China Cheered American Relative Decline
Part II: Classical Realism Versus International Relations Today: Interview w/ Jonathan Kirshner
Indo-Pacific Strategy: Foreign Policy for the Oligarchic Class
Status Anxiety in the National Security State
Sino-US Rivalry, Or Green Global Economy
Should Semiconductors Be the MacGuffin of Geopolitics?
Classical Realism Versus International Relations Today: Interview w/ Jonathan Kirshner
Fractured Progressivism, China, and the Climate Left
The Perils of NATO Identity Politics
A Permanent War Economy Is Democracy's Enemy, Not Its Arsenal
Who, or What, is Driving Global Trends?
Richard Haass's Alienation From the National Security State
Dollar Primacy, Nationalism, and Labor Suppression: Three Vital Aspects of Global Economic Tumult
Can Journalists Handle My Candor About Nikki Haley's War on China?
The Dark Politics Behind Billionaire Fight Club
American Hegemony v. New Zealand's 'Independent' Foreign Policy
Reading the Reactionary Right on Foreign Policy
Indo-Pacific Strategy’s Hindu-Fascist Blind Spot
How China Thinks About Asian Security Order
Making Sense of Industrial Policy as Geopolitics
Alastair Iain Johnston on a Racialized Sino-US Conflict
If I Were Secretary of Defense...
Manufacturing Fear...of a China War
Sino-US Détente Was Bought in Blood. Sino-US Rivalry is Worse
Real Talk on Cornel West for President
What Good is the Shangri-La Dialogue?
Kissinger's Cambodia Killings, w/ Nick Turse
Is US China Policy a Danger to Itself and Others?
Is Fukuyama Liberalism the End of History? Chat w/ Daniel Bessner
What’s At Stake in the Multipolarity Debate?
What TV Shows Are You Watching?
Does the "G" in G-7 Stand for "Gaslighting?"
Narrating the Pacific When We Talk About "Indo-Pacific"
"A Dissident Among Foreign Policy Intellectuals"
Is South Korea Blowing Its ‘Pivotal State’ Status?
How to Disrupt Feedback Loops of War in Beijing and Washington
How Great-Power Rivalry is Repression Politics
Thinking about the Biden-Obama Foreign Policy Comparison
Blow Up TSMC? How Washington’s 'Deterrence' Talk Sacrifices Taiwan
Solving the Security Puzzle, with Security in Context
Geopolitical Economy is Brutalist Neoliberalism: Part II
Geopolitical Economy is Brutalist Neoliberalism: Part I
The Art of National Security Sophistry
The US Democratic Party and South Korean Nukes
Wargaming China is a Double-Edged Grift
Jake Sullivan's China Tweet--Not Yellin' at Janet Yellen
Biden's China Policy is...Still Incoherent
Does Your Theory of China Explain Tesla's Bullishness on China?
What Happens When You Do Primacy in a Multipolar World?
Thinking Pragmatically About China Decoupling and Industrial Policy
Don't Call It a S*bst*ck! I been here for years...
Appearance on The Majority Report to Talk China-Threat Politics
A Pragmatic Foreign Policy Would Have Black American Support
Peace, Primacy, and Washington's Anti-China Politics
New Episode Drop: Raging Against the Foreign Policy Convo
Pacific Power Paradox Versus Mearsheimer and Kagan
From Pivoting in Asia to Confronting the National Security State
A Master Class on Realism and the Realist Sensibility
US Institute of Peace Panel: "The Fate of the Asian Peace"
Guam, Trapped by the Poverty of "Indo-Pacific" Strategy
The Backstory on Pacific Power Paradox: Part II of II