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Daniel W. Drezner


Your American foreign policy quote of the day

I attended an ISA panel featuring several academics who had occupied high-ranking positions in the Bush administration. My take-away quote from a former policy planning director: Six years after...

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Should IR scholars expose themselves?

Blogging will be light over the next few days, as your humble blogger racks up additional frequent flyer miles attends the International Studies Association annual meeting in San Francisco. In honor...

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What's the worst movie ever?

Alex Massie links to a Joe Queenan essay in the Guardian. Queenan takes advantage of the opportunity to review The Hottie and the Nottie to ponder the elements of the worst films of all time: To...

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Note to self: do not bring short-shorts to Paris

Elaine Sciolino bids a fond farewell to one of the best sinecures in journalism -- the Paris desk of the New York Times. Sciolino is a fine reporter/observer, and is not afraid to reveal the...

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Dumbest poll ever

I certainly think public opinion matters in the formulation of policy -- and that foreign policy leaders ignore the public at their peril. That said, this Program on International Policy Attitudes...

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The decline and split of the west?

Another day, another online article. The topic of my latest Newsweek column is whether the West -- i.e., American and Europe -- can still act as the global policy leader. I'm not optimistic: America...

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Drezner predicts the political future!

Me, last Tuesday: I should add that, based on what I've heard while here [with Bill Richardson], it's pretty damn obvious that Richardson would like to endorse Obama.The New York Times, today: Gov....

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Because the Nixon Center likes to make mischief

My light sparring with Danielle Pletka apparently intrigued a lot of people in Washington. As a result, I have a short piece at the National Interest online about the foreign policy divide withi the...

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Walking the accessibility tightrope

The New York Times' Stephanie Rosenbloom writes about the trend of professors revealing more of their souls online: It is not necessary for a student studying multivariable calculus, medieval...

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The realist tradition in American public opinion -- published

A few years ago, I responded to a Patrick Belton post at OxBlog thusly: [There is] a thesis that I've been cogitating on for the past few months: despite claims by international relations theorists...

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