You’ve been mulling this subject for more than three decades. Over that time, have your views changed? Has expert understanding of the subject increased? (Presumably yes, because the course readings are mostly new.) or is this something like industrial policy, where intellectual and academic fashions seem to rotate every couple of decades? In short, has the study and/or practice of this area exhibited actual progress? Inquiring minds want to know...
I did write something more recently that partially addresses your queries: https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/98/5/1533/6686647. My tweet-length response is yes, I do think both the study and practice have evolved over time.
“Over the past decade, the United States has sanctioned other great powers on a regular basis...maximum pressure campaigns became a policy end rather than a policy means. Other countries copied the US approach to economic statecraft. The result is a world of more sanctions, fewer concessions and greater human suffering....
“elected officials might have [domestic political] incentives to adopt more hawkish postures.”
How depressing. Learning in tactics only, mistakes repeated, no progress and possibly even regression.
All your conclusions are sensible; too bad politicians don’t care. The opening cartoon is too accurate to be funny. 😢
Welp... my reading list expanding a little bit. Interesting topics.
Can I take it?
Thank you for providing an organized beginning to my lit review
This time it seems to have gone through
Weird, it only comes up on kindle. Paperback reverts to revised edition on Amazon via my mobile
And speaking of which, when’s an updated Zombie book coming out? Teaching the revised edition next week...
The Apocalypse Edition came out last year! https://www.amazon.com/Theories-International-Politics-Zombies-Apocalypse/dp/0691223513/ref=asc_df_0691223513/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=590919985567&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6078255176089154558&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1018107&hvtargid=pla-1600942988588&psc=1
You’ve been mulling this subject for more than three decades. Over that time, have your views changed? Has expert understanding of the subject increased? (Presumably yes, because the course readings are mostly new.) or is this something like industrial policy, where intellectual and academic fashions seem to rotate every couple of decades? In short, has the study and/or practice of this area exhibited actual progress? Inquiring minds want to know...
I did write something more recently that partially addresses your queries: https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/98/5/1533/6686647. My tweet-length response is yes, I do think both the study and practice have evolved over time.
Thanks, excellent piece.
“Over the past decade, the United States has sanctioned other great powers on a regular basis...maximum pressure campaigns became a policy end rather than a policy means. Other countries copied the US approach to economic statecraft. The result is a world of more sanctions, fewer concessions and greater human suffering....
“elected officials might have [domestic political] incentives to adopt more hawkish postures.”
How depressing. Learning in tactics only, mistakes repeated, no progress and possibly even regression.
All your conclusions are sensible; too bad politicians don’t care. The opening cartoon is too accurate to be funny. 😢
Yale puts a number of lecture series on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@YaleCourses
Would love to see Dan do something like this!