Publications

Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon (2025), “Trump’s Antiliberal Order: How America First undercuts America’s Advantage,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 101, no. 1 (January-February 2025).

Alexander Cooley (2024). “The Uprisings of Gaza: How Geopolitical Crises have Reshaped the Academy, from Kyiv to Tahrir,” Political Science Quarterly, February 24, 2024, DOI: 10.1093/psquar/qqae006.

Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (2024). “Transnational Uncivil Society Networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism,” European Journal of International Relations, vol. 30, no. 2 (2024): 382-407, DOI: 10.1177/13540661231186502.

Alexander Cooley, Tena Prelec, and John Heathershaw (2022). “Foreign Donations in the Higher Education Sector of the United States and the United Kingdom: Pathways for Reputation Laundering,” Journal of Comparative & Higher Education, vol. 14, no. 5 (2022): 43-79, DOI: 10.32674/jcihe.v14i5.4625.

Alexander Cooley (2021). “On the brink and at the world’s edge: Western approaches to Central Asia’s international politics, 1991-2021,” Central Asian Survey, 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2021.1974818.

Alexander Cooley (2019). “Ordering Eurasia: The Rise and Decline of Liberal Internationalism in the Post-Communist Space,” Security Studies, DOI: 10.1080/09636412.2019.1604988.

Alexander Cooley, Daniel Nexon, and Steven Ward (2019). “Revising order or challenging the balance of military power? An alternative typology of revisionist and status-quo states,” Review of International Studies, 1-20, DOI: 10.1017/S0260210519000019.

Alexander Cooley and George Gavrilis (2018). “The Cold War, the PostCold War and the Academy: Policy Recommendations from an Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studies,” PONARS Eurasia Memo No. 544, October 20, 2018.

Alexander Cooley (2018). “What's Next for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization?” The Diplomat, June 1, 2018.

Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, and JC Sharman (2018). “Laundering Cash, Whitewashing Reputations,” Journal of Democracy, vol. 29, no. 1, (January 2018): 39-53.

Alexander Cooley (2017). “Whose Rules, Whose Sphere? Russian Governance and Influence in Post-Soviet States,” Carnegie Endowment (June 2017).

Alexander Cooley (2017). “How the Democratic Tide Rolled Back,” Real Clear World, January 17, 2017.

Alexander Cooley (2016). “The Emerging Political Economy of OBOR: the Challenges of Promoting Connectivity in Central Asia and Beyond,” Reconnecting Asia, Washington DC: CSIS, October 2016.

Alexander Cooley and Jack Sndyer (2015). “Rank has its Privileges: How International Rankings Dumb Down Global Governance,” Foreign Affairs, November/December 2015.

Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon (2015). “Putin's Potemkin Intervention: the Weakness of Moscow's Syrian Adventure,” Foreign Affairs, October 18. 2015

Alexander Cooley (2015). “Countering Democratic Norms,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 26, No. 3 (July 2015): 49-63, DOI: 10.1353/jod.2015.0049.

Alexander Cooley and JC Sharman (2015). “Blurring the Line between Licit and Illicit: Transnational Corruption Networks in Central Asia and Beyond,” Central Asian Survey, vol. 34, no. 1, 11-28, DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2015.1010799.

John Heathershaw and Alexander Cooley (2015). “Offshore Central Asia: An Introduction,” Central Asian Survey, vol. 34, no. 1, 1-10.
DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2015.1008816.

Alexander Cooley (2015). “Scripts of Sovereignty: The Freezing of the Russia-Ukraine Crisis and Eurasia's Governance Dilemmas,” Center for Global Interests, Washington DC, January 2015.