The Book

Alexander Cooley speaks at Bilkent University’s International Relations Talks about Exit from Hegemony. Watch on YouTube >

We have a new article in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs. It provides an overview of some of our key arguments. Because of the format, it loses a lot of nuance and most of Read More

You can buy and read Exit from Hegemony right now. You can even check out the first chapter – and part of the second chapter – as a free sample on Kindle.

Benjamin Tallis was kind of enough to invite me to present at the Hamburg Insecurity Sessions. Not only did I have a terrific and intellectually stimulating time, but it’s resulted in a video of me Read More

While debates over Trumpism currently consume foreign-policy watchers, scholars of world politics generally focus on longer-term developments. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States faced no great-power peer competitors. It Read More

In Exit from Hegemony, we explore the theory and practice of the American hegemonic system. We argue that there are three distinct principles of liberal international order: democratic political systems that broadly respect political and Read More