Don’t actually know if I am going to use this or not but I do enjoy being a takes artist. Basically this is going to be a foreign policy blog/anything else i am interested in within a given week. Hoping to write 2-3 columns a week looking at current events in international politics. I am going to write this column for a general audience but it is going to utilize a lot of scholarship from international relations theory so being familiar with that would be quite helpful. Some topics I hope I get to discuss in this column are:
-The application of IR theory to current events in the international system.
-Focusing on how artificial intelligence and OSINT are changing how countries fight wars.
-The economics of great power competition.
- Dunking on IR scholars, Tankies, and Republicans.
-Providing bad predictions about the future of international politics.
You might be curious to see why I think my predictions are going to be bad. That can be answered by the fact that most predictions provided by take artists are bad (see anything written by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times). However, pundits continue to make predictions because it is fun to prognosticate how events will play out. Plus there is the added benefit that on the off chance that you are right, you can act snide and celebrate your prediction. Of course, like any good pundit I will carry on this legacy of screaming I told you so while not seriously engaging with the magnitude of my prediction. Hope you enjoy