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On “China Shock 2.0” and the Green Industrial Wars
The China-focused battle over electric vehicle subsidies and production is an intellectual dead end that might actually end in a shooting war.
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Curated Nerd Stuff (4/27/24)
Intermittently sharing what I find digging through the crates of life. Here’s the best and most interesting of what I came across the past couple weeks…
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Polling the Public Mind on Foreign Policy
The Pew Research Center came out with new polling that displays year-on-year changes in public opinion about various foreign policy priorities. I have…
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It’s Just War: On Michael Walzer’s Ratio of Death
Walzer’s Palestinian death-ratio logic is a fitting capstone to a career intellectualizing state violence and subverting the coherence of social…
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Live Show: US Foreign Policy and the 2024 Elections
Out of the maybe 20 live events I spoke at in the US recently, only one—one!—was actually recorded (I was supposed to record a couple myself but I left…
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The “Indo-Pacific” is not a “Lattice Fence"
Team Biden's newest metaphor for “Indo-Pacific security" is misplaced. But is it because they don’t understand power relations, or because they do and…
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A New Dependency Theory Moment
Historical analogies are fashionable, in seemingly déjà vu times such as ours. It would be in vain to signal the inaccuracies of these analogies just…
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Who’s Afraid of Anti-Militarism?
Some reflections on one of my public appearances in the US, and the political coalitions that resist taming geopolitics.
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David Klion on Alex Ward on Biden's Global Train Wreck
Critique, credulity, and Biden’s D+ foreign policy
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Curated Nerd Stuff (April 11th/12th edition)
Intermittently sharing what I find digging through the crates of life. Here’s the best and most interesting of what I came across the past couple weeks…
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Nuclear Precarity in Northeast Asia
A wonky guide to averting catastrophe
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The Reactionary Value of “Pro-Labor” Vibes
I’m still traveling—around California now—and have shared some photos and musings at the bottom of this post. But I just wanted to quickly insist on two…
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