BOOK REVIEWS
Bucking the Buck. US Financial Sanctions and the International Backlash against the Dollar by Daniel McDowell, Business Economics 2024
American Global Pre-Eminence-The Development and Erosion of Systemic Leadership, by William R. Thompson, Before the West-The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders by Ayşe Zarakol Perspectives on Politics 127(3): 470-72, 2024
When Might Makes Right: Rising Powers and World Order, by Stacie Goddard, H-Diplo (2020)
Why Not Default? by Jerome Roos, International Affairs (Jan 2020)
Hegemony in International Society, by Ian Clark, Political Science Quarterly 127(3): 470-72, 2012
MEDIA
The Decline and Fall of the Petrodollar? Long Read. Project Syndicate, July 5, 2024 (featured in Ahead of the Herd, Ta Nea)
Carla Norrlöf Says More. Interview. PS on Point. Project Syndicate, June 11, 2024
NATO is not a hegemonic burden. Project Syndicate, April 2, 2024 (featured in The Kyiv Independent, Die Standard, The Japan Times, The Daily Star, Arab News, Taipei Times, Új Szó, El Tiempo, Diario de Mallorca, Bangi News, La Nación, Excélsior)
The Meaning of Sweden’s NATO Accession. Project Syndicate, March, 2024 (featured in The Strategist, RealClear Defense, Real Clear World, Royal United Services Institute, Gulf Times, Försvarets Forum, Diario de Noticias, Ceylon Today, The Korea Times)
Settler Sanctions and the Liberal International Order. Project Syndicate, February, 2024 (featured in Homeland Security Newswire, Dhaka Courier, Tageblatt)
What the Global Economy and Security Require. Project Syndicate, January, 2024 (featured in RealClear World, The Business & Financial Times, The Jordan Times, Oman Observer, Ceylon Today, Addis Fortune)
The Dollar’s Full-Spectrum Dominance. Project Syndicate, September, 2023 (featured in Business Insider, Japan Times, Le Monde, RealClear World, The Manila Times, La Diaria)
Currency, Conflict, and Global Order. Project Syndicate Quarterly, At Arms, July 2023 (featured in Business Insider, RealClear Markets)
The Dollar Still Dominates: American Financial Power in the Age of Great-Power Competition. Foreign Affairs, February 21 2023
Don’t be fooled: sanctions really are hurting Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Guardian, October 26 2022
A New Iron Curtain Splits Russia From the West. World Politics Review, April 19 2022 (featured in CNN, Fareed’s Global Briefing)
The New Economic Containment: Russian Sanctions Signal Commitment to International Order. Foreign Affairs, March 18 2022
Banning Russia from SWIFT is a big deal. But the real pain comes from sanctions. The Washington Post, The Monkey Cage, March 7 2022
China and Russia announced a joint pledge to push back against dollar hegemony. The Washington Post, The Monkey Cage, April 19 2021
Should U.S. Foreign Policy Focus on Great-Power Competition? Foreign Affairs. Expert Survey. October 2020
Is the Pandemic Reshaping Geopolitics? Foreign Affairs. Expert Survey. June 2020
Educate to Liberate Foreign Affairs. Essay. March/April 2019 Issue 98(2): 132-141. (Covered in Democracy Digest the daily blog of the National Endowment for Democracy)
Has the Transatlantic Alliance Been Irreparably Damaged? Foreign Affairs. Expert Survey. October 2018
Did Inequality or Race Tip the Scales for Trump’s Election? Newsweek. 2018.
America-first ideology will trigger American decline.* The Globe and Mail. November 14, 2016 (Covered in The Wall Street Journal’s From Rome’s Reign to ‘Pax Americana’.)
Trump says we can reduce the debt by making U.S. allies pay for military protection. That’s mostly wrong. (with William C. Wohlforth). The Washington Post, The Monkey Cage. November 3, 2016
Will economic statecraft threaten western currency dominance? Sanctions, geopolitics, and the global monetary order. Atlantic Council, Washington D.C., September 2022
GOVERNMENT SERVICE/THINK TANK REPORTS
Will economic statecraft threaten western currency dominance? Sanctions, geopolitics, and the global monetary order. Atlantic Council, Washington D.C., September 2022
Economic statecraft: Finance and money. Atlantic Council, Washington D.C., November 2021
The waning of Pax Americana? Great Decisions, Foreign Policy Association, New York, NY, 2018