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Tanner Greer

A School of Strength and Character

Nineteenth-century Americans stunned outsiders with their capacity for self-organizing. By cultivating the virtues of public usefulness, procedural formality, and agentic hierarchy, they created a powerful set of norms for building institutions.

Tanner Greer Posted on March 30, 2023May 16, 2023

Why We Need the Center for Strategic Translation

The American Governance Foundation is launching a new institution to help American decision makers understand China.

Tanner Greer Posted on November 14, 2022December 8, 2022

The Taliban Were Afghanistan’s Real Modernizers

Only a powerful modernizing force could overcome the tribal loyalties that divided Afghanistan’s fragile state. That force was the Taliban.

Tanner Greer Posted on April 15, 2022October 3, 2023

The Myth of Panic

The threat of mass panic lurks behind our mechanisms of political control. What if we were allowed to fear?

Tanner Greer Posted on July 15, 2021July 23, 2021

The Forgotten UN Intervention to Build Democracy in Cambodia

In the early 1990s, the UN intervened in Cambodia in a show of liberal democratic state-building. Its failures foreshadowed the hubris which would follow the liberal world order from Yugoslavia to Afghanistan.

Tanner Greer Posted on January 20, 2021March 2, 2021

The Belt and Road Strategy Has Backfired on Xi

Numerous Chinese projects adopted the Belt and Road brand. But its grand strategy propaganda has created new enemies and makes Xi responsible for every failed venture.

Tanner Greer Posted on October 24, 2020October 25, 2020

The Theory of History That Guides Xi Jinping

Chinese President Xi Jinping believes in inevitable laws of history and makes sure that his government does too. China’s path of peaceful development depends on his continued belief in globalization and the rise of developing economies.

Tanner Greer Posted on July 8, 2020July 15, 2020

Xi Jinping in Translation: China’s Guiding Ideology

In a newly translated speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping demonstrates the Party’s commitment to presenting its development path as Marxist, rather than allowing “state capitalist” narratives to flourish.

Tanner Greer Posted on May 31, 2019May 13, 2020
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