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Stability, Chaos, and the 2024 Election

My 2023 Airing of Grievances

Is the Country... Continuing to Get Better And Better?

How Much Omnibalancing Will There Be in 2024?

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades and Neoconservatives and Contrarians

Our Sneak Preview of Trump's Second-Term

Substackers Against Nazis

The Coming Year of Apocalypse Films

You Could Not Pay Me Enough to Be a College Administrator

The Most British Book I Have Ever Read

The Authoritarianism Is The Point, Part II

Nominations are open for the 2023 Albies!

The Regrets of Institutional Responsibility

Why the Year of Elections Does Not Mean a Year of Risky Populism

The State of the Economic Sanctions Literature

On the Matter of Henry Kissinger's Death

The U.S. Government Goes on a Cryptocurrency Whale Hunt

Hypocrisy and Cynicism in World Politics

What I'm Thankful for in 2023

The Unproductive Entrepreneurship of Silicon Valley

My Baggage Check on Israel

Does the U.S. Congress Need a Timeout?

Economic Statecraft: The Next Generation

A Short Post About... The Devolution of Fiscal Conservatism

The Paradox of Tom Friedman's Resurgence

The Authoritarianism Is The Point

Here's The Thing About Israel's Grand Strategy

Will China Have a 21st Century Cultural Revolution?

Why is the United Nations in Such Disarray?

The Sources of Drezner's Frustration with the Biden Administration's Grand Strategy

My Very Important Take on Sam Bankman-Fried's Conviction

How "Pop Culture Influencing Policy" Stories Can Be Wildly Exaggerated

The Disturbingly High Variance of Donald Trump's Future

The Global Implications of the Gaza Conflict

The Dangerous Crap Sandwiches of Recent Intellectual Manifestos

No Rallying Around the Flag in the Middle East

The End of... the End of the End of History?

What the Hell Has Happened to America's Governors?!

Is the U.S. Foreign Policy Apparatus Working?

The Biden Administration Tries Something Different in Venezuela

A Modest Disagreement with Paul Krugman

Regarding "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto"

The Limits of Outside Opinion in Gaza

When Conservatives Undermine National Security

A Brief Note Regarding the Public Musings of College Students

The Trouble With a Gaza Siege

So Long, Twitter -- I'm Outta There

My Very Depressing Take on The Israel/Hamas War

It Is a Bipolar World Whether Folks Like It or Not

Two Legendary Red Sox Exit the Stage

What Does American Public Opinion Tell Us About U.S. Support for Ukraine?

Why I'll Be Limiting My Academic Advice From Here On In

Everything I Learned About Corporate Leadership From Linda Yaccarino

The Dumbest Analogy in the Russo-Ukrainian War

America Has Changed Since "NYPD Blue" Aired

What I Learned from Reading Sergii Plokhy's The Russo-Ukrainian War

Look Who's Talking in World Politics

Nine Theses About Joe Biden's Age...

Happy Substack Anniversary to Me!

The International Relations Defense of Globalization

The Most Pro-Capitalist Show on Television

America's Underground Grand Strategy

A Politician, a Lawyer, and a Management Consultant Walk Into a University....

A Very Important Post About.... Laughing in the Face of Absurdity

Elon Musk Needs Some Quality Foreign Policy Advisors

How ChatGPT Has Not Changed My Plans for This Fall

The Trump Put in International Relations

What I Learned at APSA 2023

Gone Conferencing!

Joe Biden's Imperfect Theory of Foreign Policy

Can U.S. Domestic Politics Cope With a Falling China?

The Rising Dangers of a Falling China

The End of the Rise of China?

Some Quick Hits on the First 2024 GOP Presidential Debate

Hello, I Must Be Aging

The 14th Amendment Solution?

The End of Centrism?

Zalmay Khalilzad and the Policy Relevance Shuffle

The Secrets to Strange New Worlds' Success

Conservative Political Correctness Is Running Amok on Campus

Summertime and the Living is Easy

This is Ron DeSantis Trying to Appear Reasonable

Maybe Clarence Thomas is Just the Best Friend Ever!

The GOP's Foreign Policy Idiocracy

David Brooks Means Well, But...

Regarding Trump's Third Indictment

Donald Trump Will Lose in So Many Ways in 2024

Thoughts on Barbenheimer

Those Track 1.5 Talks With Moscow Will Go Nowhere.

The U.S. economy is humming along pretty well.... or is it?

The New York Times Weighs in on Sanctions

Only Kissinger Gets Loved in China

Supermarkets Are Awesome.

Silicon Valley Is Too Politically Online

Donald Trump Wants to be a Toddler Dictator. A Lot of Other Republicans Are Fine With That.

The Old Consensus on U.S. Foreign Policy is Only Mostly Dead

A Very Important Post About... Taylor Swift's Prestige Power.

When International Norms Get Messy

Why Don't More Americans Approve of Joe Biden?

The Politics and Culture of Biden's Temper

Welcome to Dumb IR Summer!

Please Stop Breathlessly Reporting Every Unofficial U.S. Interaction with Russia, Please

What if Social Media Does Not Matter in 2024?

The Subtle Strengthening of American Institutions

Gone Vacationing....

Elon Musk's Scorched-Earth Twitter Environment

What the Hell Just Happened in Russia?

What the Hell Is Happening in Russia Right Now?

Weakest. Petition. Ever.

The New York Times Runs a Bad Article on Globalization

Meet the New Makers of Modern Strategy....

Drezner's World is Going to Europe!

The Postmodern Battle over ESG

Conservative Discovers Polanyi. Film at Eleven.

A Useful Typology for the Trump Indictments

Why I'm Not Worried About the GOP's Crowded 2024 Field

China's Lazy Flacks

Is the Country.... Continuing to Get Better?

It's not a multipolar world.

CNN and the Inventory Problem

Run Jamie Run!

Henry Kissinger's One Real Foreign Policy Innovation

A Few Optimistic Thoughts About the Debt Ceiling Deal

Ron DeSantis' slightly artful dodge on Ukraine

The G7 Pot Calls the Chinese Kettle Black

Lucky Hank and The Diplomat, Reviewed

A Very Important Post About.... Which Central Asian State Has the Most Absurd Cult of Personality Museum.

Proof of Life in Central Asia

Drezner's World Is Going on a Fact-Finding Trip

Why Science Fiction Informs How People Think About Science Facts

The Moral Panic About Higher Education

The Cost Disease of the Populist Sector

Can a Decent Republican Win in 2024?

Whither India?

The Risks of De-Risking

Success and Failure in Basketball and Foreign Policy

The Tendentious Foreign Policy Worldview of Tucker Carlson

The Ron DeSantis Bubble Deflates

Chinese Diplomacy Steps In It Yet Again

The Limits of Nostalgic Sci-Fi

Some Questions for the Global South

Mike Pompeo Gets Serious About 2024

The Week I Became a Bostonian

The Biden Administration's Desire for a Goldilocks Offensive

Are "Wikipedia-Surfing Kissinger Wannabes" Killing the Political Risk Field?

Join me on Notes

Hell Freezes Over in American Foreign Policy

The Biggest Surprise in the U.S. Intelligence Leak

Macron is Macroning Again

When Dominant Networks Go Bad

My One Thought About the Indictment of Donald Trump

What I Am Reading About Economic Statecraft This Week

The Academic Work Life is Not for Everyone

Bye Bye Blue Check

Is Iraq Worse than Vietnam?

Israel is Going Through It Right Now.

The Awkward DeSantis Straddle

What If We Avoid a Security Dilemma Over Taiwan?

The Weaponization of Government is Proceeding Apace

Some Light Weekend Reading About Hard Balancing

The Benefits and Pitfalls of Academics and Practitioners Talking to Each Other about IR

Two Ways of Looking at the SVB Bank Run

China's rise giveth and China's rise taketh away

Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines?

How is Fox News Different From All Other Media?

Intelligence is Not the Same Thing as Confidence

Where is the Big China Speech?

What I Learned about how the U.S. Handled the Run-Up to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Of Course "The Last of Us" is a Zombie Show

The War in Ukraine, One Year On...

Ron DeSantis Tries His Hand at Foreign Policy

The Political Science of the MCU

The Last Gasp of Anti-Immigration Sentiment?

The Sports Talk Theory of Conspiracy Theories

Natural Disasters Are Rarely All-Natural

Things That Make You Go "Hmm..."

Quick Hits on the 2023 State of the Union Speech

The Uneven State of the State Department

Belated Balloon Thoughts

The Significance of Nikki Haley

The Two Political Dynamics Currently Exasperating Democrats

The pitfalls of multilateral coalitions

So you're worried about a polycrisis...

The End of the Intellectual Focal Point

Xi's U-turn?

The Biden Administration Attempts to Square the Circle on Export Controls to China

My Economic Statecraft Syllabus

The Unintentional Hilarity of Transatlantic Discourse

What is the House GOP Thinking?

My Week of Death and Learning

Drezner's World Is on a Temporary Hiatus

Preliminary Thoughts About the 2024 Election

Is Higher Education Headed in the Wrong Direction?

Let's Talk About the Book List!

What, exactly, is the state of the Sino-Russian relationship?