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Alexander Cooley
Exit from Hegemony
The Age of Kleptocracy

Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon write in Foreign Affairs on how Trump's foreign policy increasingly serves private enrichment over the national interest.

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CommentaryAlexander CooleyMarch 1, 2026Kleptocracy & corruption, World order
Book Review Roundtable on Dictating the Agenda

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."

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ScholarshipAlexander CooleyJanuary 15, 2026Authoritarian Influence, World order
Even in Retreat, America Will Remain Globally Consequential

Alexander Cooley writes for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on why the United States will remain globally consequential even as it pulls back.

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CommentaryAlexander CooleyDecember 16, 2025World order
Authoritarian States Have Powerful Reach—Even in Ireland

Alexander Dukalskis and Alexander Cooley write in the Irish Examiner on how authoritarian influence reaches into open democracies.

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CommentaryAlexander CooleyOctober 9, 2025Authoritarian Influence
A Multipolar Balancing Act

Alexander Cooley writes for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on the United Nations at 80 and its continued relevance.

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CommentaryAlexander CooleySeptember 22, 2025World order, Central Asia
Global Corruption Would Be Impossible Without Help from the West

Alexander Cooley writes in ProMarket on the role of Western enablers in sustaining global kleptocracy.

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CommentaryAlexander CooleySeptember 15, 2025Kleptocracy & corruption, Offshore finance
Transnational Uncivil Society Networks

Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira publish in the European Journal of International Relations on kleptocracy's transnational fightback against liberal activism.

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ScholarshipAlexander CooleyJune 1, 2025Kleptocracy & corruption, Authoritarian Influence
Russia's Hidden Empire

Alexander Cooley writes in Foreign Affairs on how Moscow has leveraged its networks across the post-Soviet space to mitigate Western sanctions.

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CommentaryAlexander CooleyApril 16, 2025Russia, Central Asia, Sanctions
Trump's Antiliberal Order

Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon argue in Foreign Affairs that "America First" undercuts the United States' own strategic advantage.

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CommentaryAlexander CooleyJanuary 1, 2025Democracy & illiberalism, World order
The Uprisings of Gaza

Alexander Cooley publishes a review essay in Political Science Quarterly on how geopolitical crises and conflicts are reshaping Area Studies fields across the Middle East and Eurasia.

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ScholarshipAlexander CooleyFebruary 24, 2024Area Studies
International Ordering and Great Power Competition: Lessons from Central Asia's Post-Cold War Basing Relations

Alexander Cooley writes for the Brookings Institution on how overseas military basing politics and great-power competition, drawing lessons from Central Asia.

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PolicyAlexander CooleyFebruary 1, 2023World order, Central Asia
The UK's Kleptocracy Problem

John Heathershaw and colleagues, details for Chatham House how servicing post-Soviet elites has weakened the United Kingdom's rule of law.

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PolicyAlexander CooleyDecember 8, 2021Kleptocracy & corruption, Offshore finance
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