Daniel W. Drezner Profile | The National Interest

Essays

Economics

Oil Dependence As Virtue

| 10.30.08

In short, a world that doesn't need oil may also be a world that doesn't need the United States.

Society

Daniel W. Drezner and Megan McArdle respond to David Frum’s take on the blogosphere. James Joyner and James G. Poulos look at whether NATO insiders have their predictions of the alliance’s demise right.

Society

Foreign Policy Goes Glam

| 11.01.07

Stars shilling for political causes are everywhere these days. But are they actually making a difference? This weekend's New York Times Magazine also tackled the topic. Drezner offered his

Society

Mind the Gap

| 01.03.07

Why policymaking elites and foreigners alike distrust the judgment of Americans.

Security

Serious About Sanctions

| 09.01.98

Self-inflicted wounds.

Reviews

Security

Whose World Is It Anyway?

| 04.25.12

Charles Kupchan’s engaging new tome describes a world where global governance is collapsing and nations have only the barest common ground of agreement. But his analysis is marred by unworkable policy prescriptions and a static perspective.

Economics

First Bank of the Living Dead

| 08.24.10

As the Great Recession gnaws at our very belief in the ability of capitalism to raise us to ever-escalating levels of wealth and prosperity, Keynes's no-longer-viable financial prescriptions are being resurrected.

Society

Machiavelli Revisited

| 03.02.09

With great power comes great responsibility. But Washington is adrift and our country in search of a strategy. Foreign-policy heavyweight Les Gelb wittily channels a master to update the classic realpolitik definition of power.