Drezner's World: Practical International Realpolitik
Daniel W. Drezner, Professor, International Politics, Tuft's University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Daniel W. Drezner, Professor at the Tuft’s Fletcher School, here illuminates the crisis between Israel and Iran.
Here it is:
Why listen to this video and read Professor Drezner’s post?
First, Drezner treats of Middle Eastern security and stability in ways that are practical, concise and expert.
Second, Drezner demonstrates both in video and commentary how to debate with civility.
Third, Drezner’s analysis illuminates the considerable planning and strategizing put in by his debate partner, the news anchor, and himself for a mere 6-minute news interview on a major cable news network.
This video and commentary is an excellent introduction to an expert whose curriculum vitae is set out in short form as:
Daniel W. Drezner is Professor of International Politics, a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the co-director of Fletcher's Russia and Eurasia Program. Prior to joining The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University. Drezner has written seven books, including All Politics is Global and Theories of International Politics and Zombies, and edited three others, including The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence. He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals as well as in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, and Foreign Affairs, and has been a regular contributor to Foreign Policy and the Washington Post. He received his B.A. in political economy from Williams College and an M.A. in economics and PhD in political science from Stanford University.
https://facultyprofiles.tufts.edu/daniel-drezner
See also:
https://fletcher.tufts.edu/people/faculty/daniel-drezner
Here are books that Professor Drezner has published within his expertise:
Drezner, D. (2017). The Ideas Industry. Oxford University Press.
Drezner, D. W. (2015). The System Worked How the World Stopped Another Great Depression. Oxford University Press.
Here is Professor Drezner’s Substack:
How enriched we are that Substack makes available to us the thoughts of a renowned Tuft’s Fletcher-School expert!
My own postings will often recommend other Substack writers. (St John the Baptist said, “He must increase and I must decrease.” In that spirit, I refer the reader with great respect and joy to Daniel W. Drezner.)
In this case, Professor Daniel W. Drezner of the Tuft’s Fletcher School is an expert I will often read with great sympathy and respect.