Historian of Russia, China, Iran, socialism, and revolution. Author "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World." Prof @HarvardHBS. Powerlifter.
Joined March 2022
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Thank you @ForeignAffairs and @MariaLipman for the positive review of my book "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" in the Nov/Dec edition of Foreign Affairs: foreignaffairs.com/reviews/r…
Never let the facts get in the way of your ideology, Glenn
The clearest evidence of this war's stupidity and failure are the arguments of its most sophisticated proponents:
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is happy to announce that I will be joining the University of Texas at Austin's School of Civic Leadership and Clements Center for National Security as a full professor this fall!
The WSJ writes about Europe war-gaming a scenario in which Russia invades Lithuania: wsj.com/world/europe/a-warga… We ran this exact scenario in a simulation at Yale in 2014, and I played Putin:
My latest for @ForeignPolicy , in which I argue that China is not seeking global hegemony but global preeminence, i.e. a sort of "first among equals" status without bearing the burdens of hegemony: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/21…
If Juan Soto steals two more bases, we can be sure he will consider it a successful series - and a successful season.
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Putin is likely to fail in Alaska for the same reason Russian leaders have historically failed to understand the US: failing to see how democracy constrains American leaders jurist.org/commentary/2025/0…
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Not a great move strategically - India's relationship with Russia is a major source of tension between Moscow and Beijing, and it's therefore not necessarily in the US interest to weaken that relationship: wsj.com/livecoverage/fed-mee…
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My latest on misconceptions about the issue of demographic decline with @JURISTnews jurist.org/commentary/2025/0…
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The obvious fact about demographic decline is that, contrary to UN models, there is no reason to believe the decline will magically stabilize, but every reason to believe it will snowball - the fewer kids there are, the harder it becomes to have kids: theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
My book Shadow Cold War is apparently being read, or at least carried, in high places, according to @NYMag
My latest in International History Review: "The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New: The Soviet Union, the CPUSA, and the International Communist Crisis of 1956": tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
My new piece in @ForeignAffairs where I argue that the US won the Cold War with ideological flexibility as much as ideological superiority, but Washington has forgotten that lesson and now China is the ideologically flexible one: foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
Ingrid Burke Friedman @Ing_Burke interviews Ziauddin Yousafzai on @JURISTnews: jurist.org/features/2023/11/…
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My latest for FP on why Xi's interpretation of socialism is preventing China from re-balancing its economy towards domestic consumption:
Beijing needs domestic consumers to spend more, but Chinese President Xi Jinping’s socialist ideology is getting in the way, @JeremySFriedman writes. foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/02…
"Let a billion content creators bloom" - the future of Chinese economic growth?: readingthechinadream.com/xia…
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