Clearly, I am old and unprofessional

Steve Clemons is advertising a gala auction event for the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.  You can bid on dates for dynamic YPFP men or women.  You can also bid for lunches with distinguished members of America’s foreign policy community.  Indeed, Steve goes on to reproduce "the impressive list of foreign policy luminaries who have ...

By , 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.

Steve Clemons is advertising a gala auction event for the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.  You can bid on dates for dynamic YPFP men or women

Steve Clemons is advertising a gala auction event for the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.  You can bid on dates for dynamic YPFP men or women

You can also bid for lunches with distinguished members of America’s foreign policy community.  Indeed, Steve goes on to reproduce "the impressive list of foreign policy luminaries who have offered to participate in YPFP’s silent auction."  And lo and behold, I see that FP’s own Tom Ricks and Stephen M. Walt are on the list. 

The hard-working staff here at drezner.foreignpolicy.com congratulates our blogging colleagues for having the necessary foreign policy gravitas to command multiple bids on lunches. 

Your humble blogger, on the other hand, looks forward to wallowing in self-pity schmoozing with Mark Lynch, Laura Rozen and the cast and crew of Shadow Government on the day of the auction.

 

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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