Some really fantastic reporting here on the state of political and military integration in Rojava: foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/04/r...
What Remains of Rojava
In northeastern Syria, Kurdish leaders continue to fight a rear-guard battle for autonomy.
foreignpolicy.com
📰 Sunday extras: "Can You Explain Istanbul?" with Suzy Hansen, @achristiemiller.bsky.social, @selimkoru.bsky.social and @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social. [1/5] kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/can-you-ex...
Can You Explain Istanbul?
Suzy Hansen and Alexander Christie-Miller on the decisions behind their books
kulturkampftr.substack.com
This was a wonderful episode to record! @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social and I sat down with @achristiemiller.bsky.social and Suzy Hansen to talk about their books on Istanbul, and Turkish politics more broadly. kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/can-you-ex...
Can You Explain Istanbul?
Suzy Hansen and Alexander Christie-Miller on the decisions behind their books
kulturkampftr.substack.com
In the latest Kulturkampf, Selim and I sat down with Alex Christie-Miller and Suzy Hansen to discuss their Istanbul books. kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/can-you-ex...
Can You Explain Istanbul?
Suzy Hansen and Alexander Christie-Miller on the decisions behind their books
kulturkampftr.substack.com
While Moyn was busy mocking liberals and social democrats for worrying about Trump, some of us were writing entire books about how, and why, the old order wasn't coming back. Anyway, @joestieb.bsky.social's analysis of this piece is spot on. 1/2
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · last wk.Two paragraphs in and we are already thick in the bullshit.
On both extremes of the Brookings - Quincy spectrum are a handful of people who believe all the worlds problems could be easily solved with either more or less US power. In the middle are a lot of smart folks starting from the premise that solving all the worlds problems might actually be hard.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.What should replace the American-led world order? | Aslı Bâli and Samuel Moyn
Presumably Rubio and Rodriguez also bonded over their shared experience as successful toadies to erratic autocrats www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
How Marco Rubio Is Running Venezuela From Afar
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I fear a lot of more reasonable parts of Biden's foreign policy are going to be discredited if they people defending them can't make a cleaner break with his Gaza policy www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The Foreign-Policy Debate Democrats Need to Have
The Biden administration focused on adapting American power to a dangerous new world. Progressives are calling that vision into question.
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In Foreign Policy, my colleague John Kennedy and I took stock of the war, with enormous thanks to @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social for commissioning and editing. foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/07/u...
Putin May Escalate, but Ukraine Is Winning
In the ongoing battle of narratives, Kyiv’s supporters have every reason to hold the course.
foreignpolicy.com
I should develop a bot over every article that follows the "Turkey ascendant" line without taking the caveats seriously
Howard Eissenstat@heissenstat.bsky.social · 4w agoU.S. media coverage on Turkey and NATO has been painful Yes, it is a valuable and important power. Yes, it is a real strategic boon. Yes, its weapons industry is important. But all of this comes with caveats that are as important as those facts. And they are being ignored.
Okay, hear me out: What if the folks upset Platners nazi tattoo wasn’t a red line, the folks upset his other sexual assault allegations weren’t a red line, and the folks upset his joining a mercenary group to kill brown people wasn’t a red line all joined forces in some kind of progressive coalition
Mainstream versions of American history downplay U.S. imperialism to tell a heroic story of the United States as a global champion of democracy.
How to Spin an Empire
U.S. imperialism as inspiration and foil.
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American education has effectively incorporated imperialism into a narrative of U.S. virtue and redemption.
How to Spin an Empire
U.S. imperialism as inspiration and foil.
foreignpolicy.com
Here's one on the Vatican's postwar diplomacy and why it's never going to cooperate with Trumpian warmongering. foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/24/p...
Papal Politics, Past and Present
Despite more colorful medieval precedents, Pope Leo’s clash with Trump reflects the Vatican’s postwar peace advocacy.
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For the 4th, @foreignpolicy.com has 7 fantastic essays from 7 fantastic historians. Here is US history retold from the perspective of prostitutes and prairie animals, not to mention mafiosos and Missourians. All free to read, complete with sex, crime and bison: foreignpolicy.com/projects/ame...
America Retold
250 years of the United States and the world.
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Western countries' prioritisation of interests over values in the case of TR is indeed disheartening at a time when the country's opposition is facing severe repression. Yet, Turkey is far from an isolated case.
Excited to share a piece I wrote with Graham Cornwell on how America deals with the legacy of empire. Rather than hide or ignore it, we argue, U.S. leaders co-opted the country's imperial history in a much more sophisticated way. And it's free to read this week! foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/01/t...
How to Spin an Empire
U.S. imperialism as inspiration and foil.
foreignpolicy.com
Wrote a short report for colleagues at @brookings.edu about Turkey defense industry: www.brookings.edu/articles/low...
Low-tech cash cows and high-tech bottlenecks: Turkey’s defense industry matures | Brookings
Turkey still faces problems in its defense industrial cooperation with Western allies—notably the United States.
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Excited to share a piece I wrote with Graham Cornwell on how America deals with the legacy of empire. Rather than hide or ignore it, we argue, U.S. leaders co-opted the country's imperial history in a much more sophisticated way. And it's free to read this week! foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/01/t...
How to Spin an Empire
U.S. imperialism as inspiration and foil.
foreignpolicy.com
@nicholasdanfort.bsky.social told me all @foreignpolicy.com content is free this week. So I’m sharing my work. “America Prepares for a Pacific War With China It Doesn’t Want” For this I embedded with Marine F-35 unit looking at the tyranny of distance in Asia. foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/16/u...
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Terrific @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social piece on Trump’s “farcepolitik” and a credulous commentariat that buys it: “The result is an ecosystem where Trump’s most committed enablers declare victory after victory and a number of people who know better, or at least should, decline to call it a defeat.”
Trump Tests the Limits of Farcepolitik
Will America join the long line of countries confronting defeat with self-delusion?
foreignpolicy.com
Readers will all undoubtedly have their own favorite example of historical farcepolitik. The Holy Roman Empire did not formally come to an end until 1806. British monarchs only dropped the title “King of France” in 1801. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/22/t...
Trump Tests the Limits of Farcepolitik
Will America join the long line of countries confronting defeat with self-delusion?
foreignpolicy.com
Readers will all undoubtedly have their own favorite example of historical farcepolitik. The Holy Roman Empire did not formally come to an end until 1806. British monarchs only dropped the title “King of France” in 1801. foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/22/t...
Trump Tests the Limits of Farcepolitik
Will America join the long line of countries confronting defeat with self-delusion?
foreignpolicy.com
My quick look at Trump, collective delusion, and, of course, Ottoman maps: foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/22/t...
Trump Tests the Limits of Farcepolitik
Will America join the long line of countries confronting defeat with self-delusion?
foreignpolicy.com
Trump's shaky Iran deal isn't a peace treaty. It won't bring lasting peace or a new order. Six Century International fellows tell @orderfromashes.bsky.social what new problems and pathologies to expect from the MoU.
Finding various lefty people in the humanities kinda annoying but not thinking it is worth burning down every free institution in the west to prevent such people emerging nor allying with the fascists in the process of doing as much? This is a superpower.
