Daniel Drezner
Freelance Writer
Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is the co-director of Fletcher’s Russia and Eurasia program. Prior to Fletcher, 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 Rockefeller Foundation, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University. Drezner has written seven books, including The Ideas Industry and All Politics is Global, and edited three others, including The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence. He co-hosts the Space the Nation podcast with Ana Marie Cox.
Latest articles by Daniel Drezner


The concept of “polycrisis” was everywhere in Davos. But is it saying anything meaningful?


Russia’s brutal missile attacks on civilians are doomed to backfire. Here’s why Putin launched them anyway.


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