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Falling Out: The Politics of Generation GWOT

A Capitalist-Ethnonationalist Contradiction in the MAGA Coalition

Dumpster Fire: Militarism Against Trans Kids, Gen Z’s Prospects in IR, Breakfast Cereal and Capitalism, Trumperialism

2024’s “Most Un-Diplomatic” Reads

Replay: Land-Grab Foreign Policy, Fake Anti-War Presidency

Trumperialism

Replay: Confronting China Wargaming and Nuclear Escalation

Live! China Wargames and Nuclear Escalation

Asian Peace, Sociopathic Diplomats, The Exclusionary Indo-Pacific, and Truly National Interests

Why Anti-China Economics is Failing

Ender’s Game, w/ Alexander McCoy (2013)

The Art of National Security Sophistry Revisited

No Peace, No Democracy: A Reply to Waleed Shaheed’s Manifesto

Taiwan’s MAGA Trap

Dumpster Fire: MAGA Views Syria, North Korea Crisis, China and the Bully Pulpit, Annexing Mexico and Canada

JD Vance, Political Realignment, and Syria

How Militarism Suffocates Real Democracy

“Peacecraft” and the Nuclear Policy Dilemma

Cross of Iron (w/ Adrian Bonenberger) (1977) | Ep. 7

Labor Internationalism with Kiwi Characteristics: A Model of Progressive Foreign Policy?

Dumpster Fire: South Korean Self-Coup Attempt, NZ Labour Against AUKUS, Canada Annexation Threat

Mailbag Questions Answered!

Sh*tting BRICS: Trump, Dollar Primacy, and Multipolarity

Predicting Trump’s Foreign Policy

How Pentagon Paranoia Took Over Foreign Policy

Mexico’s President Goes Full Un-Diplomatic

Dumpster Fire: People Hate Cheney, Primacy is Bipartisan, Plundering Ukraine, Philippines Assassination Threat, Fareed Zakaria as Sychophant, Hungary’s Lessons

The Counter-Revolutionaries in Charge

How Taiwan and Ukraine Are Not (and Are) Connected

Pissed at Morning Joe and Pod Save Bros? Try These

Dumpster Fire: Temu Supply Chains Gig-ified, The Russian Missile Crisis, New Zealand’s Hikoi

In the Loop (w/ Spencer Ackerman) (2009) | Bang-Bang Episode

A Manifesto for Foreign Policy Realignment

The Joy of Thinking Radically

If You Want Peace, Hire War Hawks???

Mailbag Time! What Do You Want to Hear?

Trump’s Extortion of Taiwan Has Already Begun

The “Right” China Typology in Trump Era 2.0

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Getting Real About Why This Happened

Looking Up on Election Day

Intelligent China Policy: An Interview with Paul Heer

War With Mexico Is a Proxy War With China

America Brings Its Rivals Together

On Lesser-Evil Voting As A Defensive Tactic

Joe Rogan is Wrong: The Pentagon Can’t Kill Protesters

What is “Far-Right Leninist Multipolarity?”

Trump Is Not The Anti-War Candidate

Who Matters? Foreign Policy’s Place in the Presidential Election, w/ Chris Shell

3 Ways To Do Working-Class Foreign Policy

Ukraine, Political Campaigns, Israel-Palestine, and China Rivalry

Zero Dark Thirty (2012) | Ep. 4 Bang-Bang

Three Multipolarities

#NeverTrump-Washing Militarism is a Thing

Me, Dan Drezner, and the Fate of the World

Un-Diplomatic at 2: How It Started, How It’s Going, Where It’s Going

Curated Nerd Stuff (10/18/24)

On Jake Sullivan Re-Writing His Own History, And Darkening Ours

Jacob's Ladder (1990) | Bang-Bang Ep. 3

Kamala Versus The Civil War Threat That Leaves Something to Chance

How Primacy Became a Dirty Word

War Films and War Criticism

Exploring America’s War Machine with the Film War Machine (starring Brad Pitt)

The Biden Administration Between Militarism and Fascism

“Deterring China,” the War Fanatic, and a Permanent War Economy

Ta-Nehisi Coates Keeps Me From Despair

Combat Obscura (2018) | Bang-Bang’s Debut

The Anti-Realism of Great-Power Competition

Bang-Bang!

Romance, Power, and Thinking Like a Think Tank

Live! World War III and the Presidential Election

Thinking Your Way Into Political Violence?

On Escalation

Kamala’s Marshall-Plan Trap

When 9/11 Got Hip-Hop, It Killed Dissent

Kamala’s Policy Page...

MAGA Foreign Policy Influencers, Manufacturing Fetishes, Democratic Party Contradictions

Why the Working Class Strategizes Against Genocide

Why I’m Not a Realist (right now)

Primacy-Policing the Pacific

The Rivalry Peril!

Transcript: Kamala’s Big Foreign Policy Speech

3 Truths About the Democratic National Convention and Foreign Policy

What to Do About Clausewitz: Saving Strategic Studies From Itself

China-Hawk Ideology Has Feeble Foundations

Understanding Primacy: A Hegemonicon Podcast Cross-Over

Gaza and the Moral Question of Public Service

To Be A China Hawk...

Curated Nerd Stuff (August 4, 2024)

The Meaning of “The Left is Right”

Kamala’s Chance to Stop an Escalating Regional War

Emerging Tech is the Future of War...on Human Freedom

New Episode! Kamala’s Opportunity, Vance’s Violence, Netanyahu Nonsense, America’s Low-Key Wars

Elections are Not Marvel Movies

The Violent Promise of Vance-Politik

Myanmar’s Gen Z Revolutionaries on a Daily Grind

Bulworth and the Trump Shooting

How MAGA Sees The World Now

Economic Nationalism For Me, Austerity For Thee

Biden’s Electoral Crisis, Foreign Policy Gaslighting

Determined to See Taiwan: A Review + Travelogue

Can An Open Letter Prevent Nuclear War?

Kamala Harris and the Race to Replace Biden

The Debate Debacle Overshadowed a China Policy Train Wreck

The China “Shock,” Militarism, and Capital Accumulation

America is the Late Qing Dynasty: A View from Singapore

Think Tank Life, Chiquita Banana Death Squads, The New Yorker Treatment, Defund ICBMs | Ep. 185

Fingering War in the South China Sea

MAGA Geopolitics: Between Extinction and a New Dark Age

The Logic of Peacemaking

Beware All Yellow-Peril Fanatics

The Non-Sovereign Pacific: What You Should Know

Curated Nerd Stuff (June 10, 2024)

A Political Map of Washington Think Tanks

White Supremacy, AIPAC, and US Foreign Policy

Better Defense Through Technology?

What Good is the Shangri-La Dialogue?

Lindsey Graham and the Fascist Nuke Problem Revisited

Contradiction, Conjuncture, and Pacific Insecurity

Taiwan, China, and the Art of Good Statecraft

Curated Nerd Stuff (25 May 2024)

Public Versus Elite Intellectualism

Economic Nationalism Masquerading as Statecraft

The Contradictions of “Progressive Realism,” and How to Overcome Them

Curated Nerd Stuff (5/11/24)

Adam Przeworski’s Grim Outlook for Social Democracy

The Misguided Politics of a South Korean Bomb

Why China Stiffs the US on Nuclear Arms Control

On “China Shock 2.0” and the Green Industrial Wars

Curated Nerd Stuff (4/27/24)

Polling the Public Mind on Foreign Policy

It’s Just War: On Michael Walzer’s Ratio of Death

Live Show: US Foreign Policy and the 2024 Elections

The “Indo-Pacific” is not a “Lattice Fence"

A New Dependency Theory Moment

Who’s Afraid of Anti-Militarism?

David Klion on Alex Ward on Biden's Global Train Wreck

Curated Nerd Stuff (April 11th/12th edition)

Nuclear Precarity in Northeast Asia

The Reactionary Value of “Pro-Labor” Vibes

Jet Lag is Truth Serum: An American Travelog

Un-Diplomatic Does America, Live!

The MAGA Foreign Policy Trap

Part III: The Contradictions of a Chinese “Communist” Manifesto

Part II: The Contradictions of a Chinese “Communist” Manifesto

Part I: The Contradictions of a Chinese “Communist” Manifesto

A Democratic Party for Whom?

On Protesting Militarism and Ambassadors

Gen Z Tech Bros Have No History

Chinese Capitalism v. Debt Geopolitics w/ Shahar Hameiri

Curated Nerd Stuff (3/3/24)

The Old Left, the New Left, and the Left Behind

McKinsey, Chinese Capitalism, and the National Security State

Planetary Politics and National Security are Incompatible

Friendship and National-Security Ideology: A Living Experiment

To the Grand Peace Strategist

The War Lover and the War Intellectualizer

Risk-Prone Reactionaries and the Precarious Life

On US Foreign Policy and the Possibilities of Progressive Worldmaking

Bernie’s Oligarchic Theory of Global Insecurity

Part II: A “Hard Break” with China is Far-Right Accelerationism

Curated Nerd Stuff (February 4 edition)

Does the CIA Director Understand China?

Whither the Conservatives for Peace?

Biden Staffers Mobilizing Non-Violent Resistance against the US Government

Guam, War, and the Non-Sovereign Pacific, w/ Kenneth Gofigan Kuper

Bill Kristol and the Non-Existent Popular Front

Curated Nerd Stuff (January 20 edition)

A “Hard Break” with China is Far-Right Accelerationism: Part I

Taiwan’s Democratic Consensus

Why “Restoring Deterrence” is Not a Thing

The Moral Limits of Public Service

2024 is Not the End of the World

What China’s Potemkin Missiles Say About China, and Us

Curated Nerd-Cool (6 Jan 2024 edition)

MAGA Foreign Policy is Death and Domination

Thoughts on Andy Levin for President

Niall Ferguson’s New Year’s Incoherence