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The fecklessness of Foreign Affairs
As the U.S. falters in its foreign policy, it’s only natural that its primary publication in the field becomes a catalogue of its own failures.
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2026-03-31 The use of nuclear weapons against Iran
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2026-04-02 Watch out middle powers, the tide is coming in!
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2026-03-19 The zombie middle powers
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2026-03-24 The Indo-Pacific strategy just sank in Iran
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The fate of middle powers in contested zones
What happens to middle powers located in contested zones—those that function not as stabilizers, but as strategic pivots struggling to survive amid…
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South Korea at the end of empire?
Accepting that South Korea’s strategic function as a state has been embedded within a larger architecture designed elsewhere means facing some extreme…
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Some middle power commentaries make me puke
Middle powers cannot build a new international order, cannot sustain an old one, and cannot save the world.
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2026-04-12 With Gaza and Iran, a change is coming to conservatism in South Korea
What was once taken as given—that the United States was both morally right and strategically reliable—is no longer easily sustained.
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2026-04-08 The Iran War Precedent: Control or Neutralization
The U.S. is a great power pursuing the neutralization of a strategic pivot. The logic that drives this strategy will not stop at the Middle East.
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2026-04-08 Nuclear threats normalize nuclear use
Historians will look back and argue that the most significant nuclear shift was not the launch, but the normalization of language that made a launch…
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2026-04-07 Prediction markets and North Korea
Prediction markets do not uncover intelligence on North Korea—they price America’s misinformed expectations.
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2026-04-06 Contesting the rimlands: Ukraine, Iran, Korea?
As the most exposed and valuable maritime wedge on the Asian continent, South Korea may be where that contest will sharpen next - unless Seoul takes…
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The fecklessness of Foreign Affairs
As the U.S. falters in its foreign policy, it’s only natural that its primary publication in the field becomes a catalogue of its own failures.
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2025-07-24 Vanity, phishing, and the North Korea watcher
Phishing is not just about technical intrusion. It’s about psychological manipulation
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2025-06-02 Manufacturing the next generation of North Korea watchers
When North Korea policy is shaped by echo chambers of trained consensus, it leaves no room for disruptive ideas
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2025-05-29 North Korea watcher cybersecurity best practice
Cybersecurity for the North Korea watcher is about adopting a disciplined, practice-based mindset
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2025-05-01 The narrowness of speculative fiction on Korea
The Korean War is the “Forgotten War,” and the peninsula remains stuck in a static conceptual role: a Cold War holdover, frozen in time
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2025-04-27 Storytelling in international relations
In international relations, the most influential book of the Cold War wasn’t a theoretical breakthrough - it was a pulp novel with a moral message
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2025-01-01 The Ugly American and Korea
Though the novel was set in the context of Southeast Asia during the Cold War, its insights into the importance of humility, cultural understanding, and…
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2024-12-20 Manspreading
Maybe on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, CNN replaces “Terror in Israel” with “Crisis Korea”...
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The fate of middle powers in contested zones
What happens to middle powers located in contested zones—those that function not as stabilizers, but as strategic pivots struggling to survive amid…
Apr 21
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Some middle power commentaries make me puke
Middle powers cannot build a new international order, cannot sustain an old one, and cannot save the world.
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2026-04-02 Watch out middle powers, the tide is coming in!
For decades, the US-led system functioned much like that sandcastle but now the tide is coming in.
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2026-03-30 The “other” middle powers
Sloppy seconds from senior scholars and former politicians recalling the heyday of middle power diplomacy no longer makes good foreign policy
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