Zachary Yost

Articles

No, Russia is Not Losing the War in Ukraine: A Reply to Paul Schwennesen

09/25/2024 Power & Market Zachary Yost

On September 5th, Reason Magazine published a very strange assessment of the war in Ukraine, written by Paul Schwennesen, titled “The War in Ukraine Is Already Over—Russia Just Doesn’t Know it Yet.”...

How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

04/16/2024 Power & Market Zachary Yost

There is little doubt that John Mearsheimer is one of the most prominent, and controversial, thinkers in the field of international relations alive today. His most important work, The Tragedy of Great...

The Consequences of Good Intentions

04/05/2024 Power & Market Zachary Yost

Between the ongoing war in Gaza and Houthi attacks on Western shipping in the Red Sea, the media has had plenty of gruesome foreign policy fodder for the content mill. However, this coverage has come...

Media

Is Russia a “Realist” Power?

12/19/2024 Ryan McMaken Tho Bishop Zachary Yost

Ryan McMaken, Tho Bishop, and Zachary Yost discuss the theory of international realism and its application to the military actions of the Russian state in Ukraine and Georgia.

Will Foreign Policy Really Be Different Under Trump?

11/21/2024 Ryan McMaken Zachary Yost

Ryan and Zachary Yost look at some of the ways Trump's foreign policy might actually be a step in the right direction.

Americans Don’t Owe Eastern Europe Anything

10/17/2024 Ryan McMaken Tho Bishop Zachary Yost

Ryan, Tho, and Zach Yost talk about some recent efforts by Polish lobbyists to shame Americans into spending more treasure (and maybe also American lives) on waging wars for Eastern European states.

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