I hereby yield to the superior metaphor
My “Hipster Statesmen” essay for Newsweek (and my “Foreign Policy Goes Glam” essay for The National Interest) was designed to show the limits of the Jeffrey Sachs approach to world politics. The combined efforts of Phoebe Maltz and Julian Sanchez have convinced me that Sanchez has the better metaphor to describe this problem.
My "Hipster Statesmen" essay for Newsweek (and my "Foreign Policy Goes Glam" essay for The National Interest) was designed to show the limits of the Jeffrey Sachs approach to world politics. The combined efforts of Phoebe Maltz and Julian Sanchez have convinced me that Sanchez has the better metaphor to describe this problem.
My “Hipster Statesmen” essay for Newsweek (and my “Foreign Policy Goes Glam” essay for The National Interest) was designed to show the limits of the Jeffrey Sachs approach to world politics. The combined efforts of Phoebe Maltz and Julian Sanchez have convinced me that Sanchez has the better metaphor to describe this problem.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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