Alexander Cooley

1 week ago | foreignaffairs.com | Ray Takeyh |Alexander Cooley |Rose Gottemoeller |Michael A. McFaul

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many Western analysts and scholars who study post-Soviet countries expected those countries’ governments and publics to express solidarity with Ukraine and denounce Russian attempts to reclaim territory and deny Ukraine’s sovereignty.

1 week ago | aftenposten.no | Alexander Cooley |Daniel Nexon |Ole Jacob Sending

Trump åpner opp et globalt bakrom for korrupsjon. President Donald Trump er «transaksjonell», tenker kortsiktig om USAs nasjonale interesser og driver med hegemonisk selvskading. Dette vet vi, og det er dramatisk. Men det er verre enn som så. Han har også en mer dyptgripende agenda: å bygge et system der de med politisk makt – i USA og i andre land – kan operere fritt og bruke politisk makt for å sikre egne økonomiske interesser.

1 month ago | foreignaffairs.com | Michael Kimmage |Steven Levitsky |Alexander Cooley |Daniel Nexon

In the two decades that followed the Cold War’s end, globalism gained ground over nationalism. Simultaneously, the rise of increasingly complex systems and networks—institutional, financial, and technological—overshadowed the role of the individual in politics. But in the early 2010s, a profound shift began. By learning to harness the tools of this century, a cadre of charismatic figures revived the archetypes of the previous one: the strong leader, the great nation, the proud civilization.

2 months ago | blaetter.de | Alexander Cooley |Daniel Nexon

In der Januar-Ausgabe skizzieren Gershon Baskin und Samer Sinijlawi, unter welchen Bedingungen der so dringend nötige Frieden zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern gelingen kann. Jeremy Konyndyk beleuchtet Joe Bidens dramatisches Versagen in Gaza. George Packer verortet die USA inmitten einer neuen, von den US-Demokraten lange verkannten Realität: der Ära der Trump-Reaktion.

Jan 23, 2025 | foreignaffairs.com | Elliott Abrams |Andrei Kolesnikov |Alexandra Prokopenko |Alexander Cooley

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the abyss and, with military means, defended its sovereignty, or rather what he calls sovereignty. Had he not done so, he asserts, Russia would have ceased to exist.