Archive - Un-Diplomatic

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…

Published on The Ideas Letter • 5 hrs ago

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.

Apr 16 •

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

Critique, credulity, and Biden’s D+ foreign policy

Apr 12 •

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…

Apr 11 •

Nuclear Precarity in Northeast Asia

A wonky guide to averting catastrophe

Apr 10 •

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…

Apr 4 •

March 2024

Jet Lag is Truth Serum: An American Travelog

It’s weird visiting a place I know in my bones, and that I study from afar, but that has also been undergoing some changes since I left. I’ve been…

Mar 31 •

Un-Diplomatic Does America, Live!

11 events across 8 days. That’s right, I’ll be making a rare appearance in the US of A. I have a number of talks scheduled in the US starting next week…

Mar 24 •

The MAGA Foreign Policy Trap

Politico had a long read on the political and foreign-policy ambitions of Senator J.D. Vance—the oligarchic, Ivy-League wealth-mover who is also a…

Mar 22 •

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

Part III of a review of The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century. Read Part I here, Part II here. Reactionary Socialism? The…

Mar 18 •

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

Part II of a review of The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century. Read Part I here. Brutal State Capitalism is Just Capitalism…

Mar 16 •

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

Part I of a review of The East is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century Shortly after taking power, Xi Jinping lavished praise on China’s…

Mar 15 •

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