Dani Reiter

Blue Blaze | Jennifer Lind | Substack International relations and US foreign policy, off the main trail. Click to read Blue Blaze, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

IR heads, I posted a 1500 word essay summarizing my book on the awesome foreign policy substack, Blue Blaze. It’s gated, but subscription is free. blueblaze.substack.com

Announcing my new Cambridge Press book, Untied Hands: His States Avoid the Wrong Wars. Check out this podcast: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Would Americans Go to War Against China? How a divided public thinks about conflict.

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To End a War The preference for freezing wars instead of ending them is one of the more dangerous trends in Western policymaking. What was once widely recognized as an innovation of Vladimir Putin’s

Glad to be inspiring public dialogue. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...

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Ending the war in Ukraine requires something for everyone to hate To reach peace, Ukraine and its Western partners must find a way to surmount mistrust. Doing so will not be easy.

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Joining NATO binds countries to defend each other – but this commitment is not set in stone NATO’s treaty has loopholes that give member countries, including the US, power over whether or not they want to intervene in a particular conflict.

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Some corrections to the historical distortions in the Oppenheimer film, by my former colleague Harvey Klehr www.commentary.org/articles/har...

Lethal Weapon is a close #2 for Xmas action film!

Putin Quietly Signals He Is Open to a Cease-Fire in Ukraine Despite its bravado in public, the Kremlin has indicated its interest in striking a deal to halt the war — so long as it could still declare victory.

This reflects a common war diplomacy pattern, belligerents may become more willing to negotiate when they can do so in the context of success, or at least not in the context of setbacks. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/w...

Some critics hate the word “realism” because it implies that realism is by definition grounded in reality, and critics are by definition disconnected from reality.

I think in the years to come there is a good chance this may be viewed as a missed opportunity to have prevented hundreds of thousands deaths without surrendering Ukrainian sovereignty www.newsweek.com/russia-offer...