Daniel Nexon

Washington, D.C., United States

Host at Whiskey & International Relations Theory

De facto left Twitter on 11/16/2023. See you at https://t.co/FdJJWIawj5.

Articles

Trump sender en lissepasning til autoritære ledere i andre land

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.
The World Trump Wants

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.
Das Ende der liberalen Weltordnung

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.
Trump vs. the Military

Jan 10, 2025 | foreignaffairs.com | Ronald R. Krebs |Alexander Cooley |Daniel Nexon |Michael Beckley

During his successful 2024 reelection campaign, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump promised to purge the military of “woke” generals. Soon after his November victory, The Wall Street Journal reported that his transition team had drafted an executive order to establish a so-called warrior board of retired senior military officers tasked with identifying serving generals and admirals who ought to be dismissed.
Trump’s Antiliberal Order

Jan 7, 2025 | foreignaffairs.com | James M. Lindsay |Alexander Cooley |Daniel Nexon |Margaret MacMillan

During his campaign for president, Donald Trump promised to deliver a nationalist “America first” foreign policy.
Stress Test

Jan 6, 2025 | foreignaffairs.com | James M. Lindsay |Margaret MacMillan |Alexander Cooley |Daniel Nexon

Historians are skittish about predicting the future, and not only because there are too many variables and possibilities. It is also not always easy to grasp the significance of events when you are in the middle of them. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, people grasped at once that a new era had started.
Book Review: "Debating Worlds" edited by Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, and Karoline Postel-Vinay

Apr 23, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Daniel Nexon |Tom Wheeler |Van Jackson |Fareed Zakaria

In This Review In This Review Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World OrderThe editors of this informative collection open with a familiar story. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, “liberal democratic capitalism” stood triumphant, its universalistic pretensions apparently vindicated.
Three Worlds: the West, East and South and the competition to shape global order

Jan 8, 2024 | academic.oup.com | G John |Daniel Nexon |see Cooley

The term ‘Third World’ was coined in 1952 by the French demographer Alfred Sauvy, in his attempt to map the emerging alignments and coalitions of the Cold War.1 The First World comprised the United States and its capitalist allies, including western Europe, Japan, and Australia. The Second World comprised the communist Soviet Union (USSR) and its eastern European satellites.
“Here Be Dragons”: Navigating the uncharted waters of AI, with lessons from the ocean

Jul 25, 2023 | duckofminerva.com | Bruno Carvalho |Daniel Nexon

You feel the gentle touch of the sea breeze on your face. Seagulls squawk overhead whilst waves crash against the shore. You glance at the book by your side, but its pages have lost their battle against the summer heat. You go for a swim. The feel of the cold salt water against your body brings back childhood memories of family trips to the seaside.
In Memory of Bear Braumoeller

Jun 29, 2023 | duckofminerva.com | Daniel Nexon