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I strongly agree with what you’re positing. I will also add that I felt this article was a bit too light on detailed sourcing for its assertions, which leads me

I strongly agree with what you’re positing. I will also add that I felt this article was a bit too light on detailed sourcing for its assertions, which leads me to feel its conclusions are suspect

alephnerd 1y ago
> this article was a bit too light on detailed sourcing This is for all intents a blog post within Foreign Affairs mag, which itself is not well regarded anymore in the policy space, as regional studies is now the norm and "grand strategy" largely failed to show value in comparison to iterative and data-driven policymaking. It's best to treat Foreign Affairs articles as op-eds targeted for general consumption, not policymaking consumption. In fact, I've seen the publication try to drive engagement via Reddit by posting similar "hot take" articles on various subreddits to drive engagement. There are decent articles, but they require you to understand who are the people writing them and whether or not they are domain experts on what they are writing about. To be brutally honest, most people who were never in this space in an actual academic capacity just wouldn't know how to filter the chaff from the kernels.