Blog Profile / Daniel W. Drezner
| URL : | http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | News / International Affairs | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1086 | |
| Posts / Week: | 4 | |
| Archived Since: | March 19, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Sometimes a factual error is just a factual error
I've spent a rather alarming portion of this week wading into intellectual pissing matches, so I'm loathe to respond to Michael Kinsley's response to last week's brouhaha over austerity policies. But one paragraph does merit a response. After noting the backlash to his last column, Kinsley writes the following: There are two possible explanations. Show More Summary
The Friedman Feedback Loop
In an offhand tweet today, I believe Matthew Yglesias might have stumbled onto a heretofore undetected threat to the American way of life. Here's the tweet: Cab drivers thinks new construction is creating too many traffic jams. #friedmaning —...Show More Summary
How to lose a foreign policy debate that you could win
As someone who is pretty friggin' wary about the use of American force in Syria, and as someone who does not shy away from snark in the blogosphere, I found Steve Walt's top ten warning signs of liberal imperialism to more alienating...Show More Summary
Stop trying to make the next Silicon Valley happen. It's not going to happen!
Since I was a young boy studying global political economy armed with little but an Economist subscription and a smile, I've noticed that, at some point, every country and their neighbor tries to do something to create their own Silicon...Show More Summary
The cartography of peevishness
So last week there was some interesting data clean-up in the foreign policy blogosphere, and some less interesting commentary on it. Let's dive in! Max Fisher posted an item at the Washington Post relying on World Values Survey (WVS)...Show More Summary
The worst piece of conventional wisdom you will read this year
Paul Krugman is a very smart and very annoying person. Over the past few years he's been hammering away at political and economic advocates for austerity policies with unmitigated glee and derision. He does so with a brio and condescension...Show More Summary
Pick the espionage theme song of the week
An awful lot of international relations can be dispiriting. A glance at the Syrian conflict reveals its awful humanitarian toll, which stands in stark counterpoint to the coldly realpolitik nature of great power foreign policies towards...Show More Summary
Gonna be a great year/decade/century for conspiracy theorists
I've read and blogged a bit on conspiracy theories, and the basic conclusion I've come to is that they are like weeds in a garden. Without careful tending and ample sunlight in the public sphere, they are all too easy to sprout up -- and...Show More Summary
Regarding Richwine...
So last week was a pretty interesting one in wonkworld. Whether it was a disturbing week is in the eye of the beholder. To recap: last Monday the Heritage Foundation released a report claiming that proposed immigration reforms would...Show More Summary
Oh, Niall....
Over the weekend Niall Ferguson got himself into intellectual hot water over an off-the-cuff response to a question about Keynes in which he suggested that Keynes didn't value the future too much because he was gay, had no heirs, and...Show More Summary
The lost history of celebrity Twitter diplomacy
As Uri Feldman has chronicled elsewhere at FP, yesterday Dennis Rodman took to Twitter to engage in some outreach to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with respect to an American "tried" for espionage in the Hermit Kingdom: I'm calling...Show More Summary
Will energy abundance destabilize world politics?
A standard take on how energy affects world politics is Tom Friedman's "First Law of Petropolitics" -- the belief that high energy prices cause energy exporters to act in more belligerent ways. What if the opposite is the case, however? ...Show More Summary
How Syria Didn't Ruin the Arab Spring
Your humble blogger has been traveling a lot, so it was only this AM that I got around to reading Marc Lynch's blog post on "How Syria Ruined the Arab Spring." It's pretty gripping stuff: [T]he Syrian nightmare has destroyed the spirit of fun, hope, and positive change of the early Arab uprisings. Show More Summary
What is presidential leadership?
Since gun regulation failed the 60-vote threshold in the Senate, some pundits have trotted out the "failure of presidential leadership" meme. See Maureen Dowd, Ron Fournier, Dana Milbank, or Peggy Noonan for example. To most political...Show More Summary
Why political scientists are screwed, redux
Six weeks ago I discussed -- as a dispassionate political scientist -- why the field of political science was good and truly fked when it came to Congress. Yesterday, Dave Weigel blogged about this at more length. The depressing parts version: Attacking government-funded social science is popular, especially on the right. Show More Summary
On getting paid in wads of cash in China
While your humble blogger remains jet-lagged out of his gourd adjusts back to the Western hemisphere, he strongly encourages you to read this fantastic David Barboza story in the New York Times on the predilection in China to use cash for... Show More Summary
Four thoughts in Seoul
Your humble blogger has spent the better part of his trip to Seoul at a conference co-sponsored by the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the East Asia Institute. The topic was "New Strategic Thinking: Planning for Korean Foreign Policy," and I got invited because I edited this a few years ago. Show More Summary
While I'm on the Seoul train....
Your humble blogger will be making his first visit to South Korea in less than twenty-four hours, and is very excited about that prospect. Blogging will therefore be on the lighter side for the next few days. Talk amongst yourselv--...Show More Summary
The Friedman Forum... and its comng competition
Yesterday the New York Times announced a brand new conference called The Next New World. The URL gives the game away, however -- it's the Friedman Forum. The précis: Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman...Show More Summary
Will the Senator from the state of half-assed thinking please go sit in a corner?
Since this week is George W. Bush retrospective week, it's worth pondering some of the possible counterfactuals of that administration. For example, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld played a pretty important role in the foreign policy...Show More Summary