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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Decoding Thomas Wright
Thomas Wright is currently analyzing the Iran war as a conflict of competing endgames between Washington, Jerusalem, and Tehran. In a recent discussion with Ian Bremmer on March 14, 2026, he argued that the war has evolved from a simple … Continue reading
Moral Universalism v Alliance Theory
Enke, Rodríguez-Padilla, and Zimmermann argue that moral universalism, the degree to which a person extends the same altruism and trust to strangers as to in-group members, predicts an entire vector of policy views across five Western democracies with remarkable consistency. … Continue reading
NYT: Entering War’s Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices
The NYT piece frames the Iran war as a strategic puzzle with two bad options: fight on toward goals that keep receding, or declare victory and leave with the job half done. That framing is accurate as far as it … Continue reading
LAT: Trump’s war rhetoric is coarse. It’s also heard differently, depending on the audience
The Los Angeles Times piece reads Trump’s Iran rhetoric through a framework built on traditional presidential norms. That framework assumes wartime rhetoric must do three things: justify the war on moral grounds, show some respect for casualties and the enemy, … Continue reading
Decoding Bibi Netanyahu Advisor Ophir Falk
Per Alliance Theory, Ophir Falk sits at the intersection of several coalitions, but his power does not come from public intellectual status or journalistic influence. It comes from being embedded in the governing national security circle around Benjamin Netanyahu. His … Continue reading
Trump Says America Might Hit Kharg Island Against ‘Just For Fun’
When elites react with alarm to a statement like “we might hit Kharg Island again just for fun,” they are responding to incentives tied to their coalition roles. Alliance Theory helps clarify why the same sentence lands so differently depending … Continue reading
Decoding Iran Scholar Roxane Farmanfarmaian
Roxane Farmanfarmaian teaches international politics at the University of Cambridge and she is the daughter of the Iranian prince Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian of the Qajar dynasty. She carries inherited knowledge. Alliance Theory predicts that coalitions often need a bridge … Continue reading
Decoding Iran Scholar Sahar Razavi
Alliance Theory, developed by David Pinsof, shifts the key question away from what a scholar believes toward what coalitions her framing allows her to coordinate with, and what audiences reward her for saying it. Applied to Sahar Razavi, a political … Continue reading
News: Supreme Court order puts California schools in legal limbo over transgender student privacy
Report: The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this week to reinstate parents’ right to be notified of their child’s gender identity has left California schools in temporary legal limbo and advocates concerned for the safety of transgender students. In a 6-3 … Continue reading
Decoding The Stimson Center
Technical expertise, in the Stimson world, works less like a credential than a lock. When analysts frame nuclear proliferation through the language of “verification regimes” and “confidence-building measures,” they do not simply describe a problem. They define who gets to … Continue reading