Daniel W. Drezner
Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.
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Their wordsthe steady accumulation of humiliating defeats that have badly eroded U.S. deterrent power.
↗The Beclowning of the State Department Continues Apacedanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe most obvious problem is that Marco Rubio continues to hold both the Secretary of State and national security advisor positions. This has been going on for nearly 18 months now and it's obviously not working well at all.
↗The Beclowning of the State Department Continues Apacedanieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
Trump's foreign policy and national security team is staffed with incompetent people at every level.
Their wordsRemember: when it comes to Trump's foreign policy and national security team, it's incompetents all the way down.
↗The Beclowning of the State Department Continues Apacedanieldrezner.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsSo it does not seem as though U.S. preferences in the Persian Gulf will be achieved - which means prices in general and energy prices in particular are likely to stay high.
↗Donald Trump Is No Longer Feareddanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe current problem with prices might be one part AI construction boom, but it is one part Trump's tariffs and one part Trump's war in Iran as well.
↗Donald Trump Is No Longer Feareddanieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
Trump is globally hated but not feared, the opposite of where Machiavelli said a prince should be.
Their wordsIn Machiavellian terms, Trump is no longer feared, and he's definitely no longer liked. Instead, he is hated - which is the one thing Machiavelli stressed should be avoided at all costs.
↗Donald Trump Is No Longer Feareddanieldrezner.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsExcessive use of financial statecraft, alliances with overseas populists, or prolonged bouts of anti-immigrant hysteria, however, will force even close allies to start thinking about alternatives.
↗The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To Falldanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsthe dollar's status is not a harbinger of U.S. hegemonic decline - it's a lagging indicator.
↗The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To Falldanieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
The Trump administration is accelerating the decline and fall of American global hegemony.
Their wordsI honestly do not know if the Trump administration will be able to completely eviscerate American power over the next two year - but damn they sure seem to be accelerating the decline and fall of American hegemony.
↗The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To Falldanieldrezner.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsa hard-earned lesson of the past few months is that mobilizing collective action against the federal government is hard.
↗That’s Not How Academic Freedom Works, Vanderbilt Trustees!!danieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThere is nothing wrong with promoting perspectives that have political commitments; in fact, intellectual diversity requires this, because some viewpoints include political commitments.
↗That’s Not How Academic Freedom Works, Vanderbilt Trustees!!danieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAn institution must remain neutral with regard to the ideological beliefs of its faculty.
↗That’s Not How Academic Freedom Works, Vanderbilt Trustees!!danieldrezner.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsTrump is lousy at playing a waiting game, and that's what this strategy entails
↗The Trump Administration Strategy Faildanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsA second pathology is the administration's wishcasting that Iran is just days away from collapsing.
↗The Trump Administration Strategy Faildanieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsthe Trump administration's foreign policymakers are so lazy that they keep self-sabotaging.
↗The Trump Administration Strategy Faildanieldrezner.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThis suggests that Rubio is having some difficulties hiring anyone with talent and is settling for a putz who will do what Rubio tells him to do on Latin America.
↗The Devolution of the Policy Planning Staffdanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIn practice, Hochman's hire is another nauseating sign that the Trump administration is destroying the bureaucracy in favor of some corrupt, neo-royalist husk of an apparatus that mostly posts memes and occasionally deploys the 82nd Airborne to extract rents.
↗The Devolution of the Policy Planning Staffdanieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsFor them to work, the world-building has to be imaginative and believable, and the characters have to be compelling.
↗My Frustration With Puzzlebox Televisiondanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsOnce the entire plot is revealed in shows like this one, it can be a letdown, flattening what has happened previously.
↗My Frustration With Puzzlebox Televisiondanieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsthe Trump administration's deferential posture towards Russia and China has alienated allies. But on the other hand, it has gained the United States nothing in the way of strategic stability.
↗So How Is The Concert of Trump Going?danieldrezner.substack.com
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Their wordsClearly the link between actual records of accomplishment and political success has been weakened just a wee bit.
↗Pete Hegseth is Losing His Gripdanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsthe United States is not winning that war and the strategic costs have been massive.
↗Pete Hegseth is Losing His Gripdanieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWithout a well-developed set of critical thinking skills, AI outputs will yield variegated results at best
↗The Professor and the Plutocrat and AIdanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI am extremely concerned that this trend will eliminate paper-writing as an assignment, and that is a core function of most professions requiring a graduate degree.
↗The Professor and the Plutocrat and AIdanieldrezner.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe dirty secret is that many professors do not write their own op-eds.
↗The Professor and the Plutocrat and AIdanieldrezner.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece