Jeremy Friedman

Thank you @ForeignAffairs and @MariaLipman for the positive review of my book "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" in the Nov/Dec edition of Foreign Affairs: foreignaffairs.com/reviews/ripe-r…

@MikeWatitwa Thanks Mike!

@JeremySFriedman They are so lucky to have you, Prof!

is happy to announce that I will be joining the University of Texas at Austin's School of Civic Leadership and Clements Center for National Security as a full professor this fall!

The WSJ writes about Europe war-gaming a scenario in which Russia invades Lithuania: wsj.com/world/europe/a… We ran this exact scenario in a simulation at Yale in 2014, and I played Putin:

China does not aspire to write all the rules of the international system, but it does want the power to revise or veto rules that conflict with its interests, writes @JeremySFriedman. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/21/chi…

@adam_tooze @DrRadchenko @nfergus

My latest for @ForeignPolicy , in which I argue that China is not seeking global hegemony but global preeminence, i.e. a sort of "first among equals" status without bearing the burdens of hegemony: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/21/chi…

@AnthonyDiComo Stearns channeling Branch Rickey: "We missed the playoffs with you, we can miss them without you."

Edwin Díaz has gone to the enemy: mlb.com/mets/news/mets…

The Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-13 Donald Stoker’s Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present “a critique of both American policymakers...[and] American scholars in their efforts to employ the concept of grand strategy” –Jeremy Friedman wp.me/p2Insd-7xg @JeremySFriedman

If Juan Soto steals two more bases, we can be sure he will consider it a successful series - and a successful season.

Putin is likely to fail in Alaska for the same reason Russian leaders have historically failed to understand the US: failing to see how democracy constrains American leaders jurist.org/commentary/202…

Not a great move strategically - India's relationship with Russia is a major source of tension between Moscow and Beijing, and it's therefore not necessarily in the US interest to weaken that relationship: wsj.com/livecoverage/f…

My latest on misconceptions about the issue of demographic decline with @JURISTnews jurist.org/commentary/202…

Demographic decline now is about where climate change was in 1990.  Some people are trying to sound the alarm, but most are still unaware or skeptical, saying things like "How can the world be warming when it's so cold?" or "Wouldn't that be good - we could grow more in Canada?"

The obvious fact about demographic decline is that, contrary to UN models, there is no reason to believe the decline will magically stabilize, but every reason to believe it will snowball - the fewer kids there are, the harder it becomes to have kids: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

My book Shadow Cold War is apparently being read, or at least carried, in high places, according to @NYMag

What keeps #Iran going despite sanctions? How does #Tehran's regime work - and why does Iran resemble #India's 1960s #LicenseRaj? Prof @JeremySFriedman @HarvardHBS tells @srijanapiya17 in #ETEvoke | ecoti.in/maGHda91

E207 - The Sino-Soviet Split, Pt. 2 w/ @JeremySFriedman The second part of our discussion with Jeremy Friedman on the Sino-Soviet split is out for all!

@nils_gilman @Alden_Young Depends what you're trying to sell.

My latest in International History Review: "The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New: The Soviet Union, the CPUSA, and the International Communist Crisis of 1956": tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My new piece in @ForeignAffairs where I argue that the US won the Cold War with ideological flexibility as much as ideological superiority, but Washington has forgotten that lesson and now China is the ideologically flexible one: foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…