Recent Writing
Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon write in Foreign Affairs on how Trump's foreign policy increasingly serves private enrichment over the national interest.
Alexander Cooley writes for Columbia Global on how authoritarian states have gone on the global offensive, drawing on the argument of his book Dictating the Agenda (with Alexander Dukalskis).
Asia Policy (NBR) convenes a book-review roundtable on Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis's Dictating the Agenda, with five scholars engaging their concept of "authoritarian snapback."
Alexander Cooley writes for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on why the United States will remain globally consequential even as it pulls back.
Alexander Dukalskis and Alexander Cooley write in the Irish Examiner on how authoritarian influence reaches into open democracies.
Recent from Media & Talks
Alexander Cooley moderates a Chicago Council on Global Affairs panel on Central Asia's rising strategic role and the growing Central Asian diaspora in the United States, with Amb. Edil Baisalov, Ajar Chekirova, and Elena Son-LaRocco.
Alexander Cooley joins a Delphi Economic Forum panel, "From Monroe to Donroe: The New Doctrine in American Foreign Policy," with the Wall Street Journal's Gerard Baker, the New York Times' Peter Baker, and Endy Zemenides of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, chaired by the Chicago Council's Leslie Vinjamuri.
Alexander Cooley speaks with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs about Hungary's pivotal election, Viktor Orbán's playbook, and what it means for the EU.
Alexander Cooley provides invited expert testimony to the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee on the United Kingdom's engagement in Central Asia.
Alexander Cooley joins NUPI's World Stage podcast to discuss whether U.S. foreign policy is now "open for business."