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1 week ago | 
tandfonline.com | Van Jackson
AbstractBridging the critical concepts of the spatial frontier and sacrifice zones with strategic thought, this article argues that Washington’s recent geopolitical ‘rediscovery’ of the Pacific primarily represents an imagining of the Blue Pacific as a new frontier for geopolitical competition; a site toward which its military strategy can redirect adversary violence.
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1 month ago | 
popularresistance.org | Van Jackson |Labor Notes
Above photo: Jenny Brown. A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term.
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1 month ago | 
znetwork.org | Van Jackson
A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term. He remarked when asked as much by an interviewer, “There is a period of transition because what we’re doing is very big.”And yet, before Trump crashed the stock market last week with his global tariff regime, America’s CEOs had the highest confidence in the U.S. economy that they’ve had in three years, according to a nationwide in the early weeks of the Trump administration.
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2 months ago | 
lawfaremedia.org | Tyler McBrien |Van Jackson |Michael Brenes |Jen Patja
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With On today’s episode, Van Jackson, Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, and Michael Brenes, Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University, join Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk about their new book, “The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy,” in which they make the case for the United...
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Van Jackson |Michael Brenes
United States China North America What does economic inequality have to do with great-power competition? Much more than you might think. Congress and the White House currently direct resources toward the national security state and away from programs and policies that support the public welfare.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
almendron.com | Michael Brenes |Van Jackson
As it did in 2016, Donald Trump’s presidency has prompted commentators in and outside Washington to reflect on the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South. U.S. foreign policy is headed into a period of uncertainty, even if Trump’s first term provides a stark reference point for how he might manage the United States’ role in the world in the coming years.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Elliott Abrams |Michael Brenes |Van Jackson |Andrei Kolesnikov
As it did in 2016, Donald Trump’s presidency has prompted commentators in and outside of Washington to reflect on the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South. U.S. foreign policy is headed into a period of uncertainty, even if Trump’s first term provides a stark reference point for how he might manage the United States’ role in the world in the coming years.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Elliott Abrams |Michael Brenes |Van Jackson |Andrei Kolesnikov
As it did in 2016, Donald Trump’s presidency has prompted commentators in and outside of Washington to reflect on the direction of U.S. foreign policy. Questions abound over how Trump will deal with China and Russia, as well as India and emerging powers in the global South. U.S. foreign policy is headed into a period of uncertainty, even if Trump’s first term provides a stark reference point for how he might manage the United States’ role in the world in the coming years.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
progressivehub.net | Van Jackson
By Van Jackson, Foreign Policy In FocusThe revolution may not be televised, but the counter-revolution sure will be. In this new political era, the dominant military power in the capitalist world-system is ruled by a Venn Diagram of baddies—ethnonationalists, oligarchs, tech bros, and national security hawks. These elites take their opportunity to direct state power from the legitimacy afforded a single man.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
commondreams.org | Van Jackson
The revolution may not be televised, but the counter-revolution sure will be. In this new political era, the dominant military power in the capitalist world-system is ruled by a Venn Diagram of baddies—ethnonationalists, oligarchs, tech bros, and national security hawks. These elites take their opportunity to direct state power from the legitimacy afforded a single man.
