Heather Penatzer
@hpenatzer
Postdoc @rwo_princeton. IR theory and grand strategy.
My debut in @compactmag_, on Anne Applebaum: compactmag.com/article/anne-a…
Re-upping this new report I wrote on how to think about major power competition over "swing" states and what the US should do about it, with a focus on South Asia:
How does major power rivalry play out for South Asia’s “swing states” – and what does that mean for U.S. policy in the region? @pstanpolitics highlighted a few policy recommendations in his new @CarnegieSAsia paper Read the full paper here: carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/…
"For all its ambitions, BRICS is less the vanguard of a new world order than a symptom of the old one’s decay." Without a strategic vision, that's all it can ever be. So argues @hpenatzer for @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/the-fa…
My latest, on BRICS, in @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/the-fa…
"Until BRICS can offer more than symbolic resistance to Western hegemony, it will remain what it is today: a coalition in search of a cause." @hpenatzer in @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/the-fa…
“In the absence of a unifying vision or common threat, BRICS is unlikely to emerge as a transformative force in international politics. For all its ambitions, it is less the vanguard of a new order than a symptom of the old one’s decay.” @hpenatzer compactmag.com/article/the-fa…
"A shared distaste for the dollar is not enough to overcome the structural pressures undermining an ascendant BRICS." @hpenatzer on why "BRICS" doesn't present a meaningful alternative to US hegemony: compactmag.com/article/the-fa…
“The coalition is an awkward mixture of neo-imperial and post-colonial powers.” Read Heather Penatzer’s @hpenatzer piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/the-fa…
New article in the Lancet that concludes "sanctions kill": "Economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564 258 deaths... annually from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106 000 deaths)." "All economic sanctions…
Excellent from @EmmaMAshford in @compactmag_ today—
“The president should therefore be wary of letting hawks in his administration and on Capitol Hill bait him into further shifts toward supporting Ukraine.” Read Emma Ashford’s @EmmaMAshford piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/trump-…
The images from Gaza are unbearable. No, not random clips, whose provenance and accuracy are questionable — but what’s in the professional press. Meanwhile, a thoughtful, conservative Israeli journalist whom I admire told me recently, Yes, the starvation is real. People, often…
Shame on everyone who is letting this happen
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
Well said
بيان صادر عن البطريركية اللاتينية في القدس Statement of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem lpj.org/en/news/lpj-st…
Biden-era sanctions & the seizure of Russian assets destabilized the dollar’s hegemony; Trump-era tariffs are intensifying the crisis. Is it time for a new Bretton Woods? — Philip Pilkington brings a big idea in the pages of @compactmag_ @philippilk
Wistaria at Kameido, by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1927