Daniel W. Drezner

Daniel W. Drezner is academic dean and distinguished professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and an academic partner at State Street Associates.  He is the co-director of Fletcher’s Russia and Eurasia program.  Prior to Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder.  He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University.  Drezner has written seven books, including The Ideas Industry and All Politics is Global, and edited three others, including The Uses and Abuses of Weaponized Interdependence.   He has been a regular columnist and contributing editor for Foreign Policy, The National Interest, the Washington Post.  He received his B.A. in political economy from Williams College and an M.A. in economics and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University.  He co-hosts the Space the Nation podcast and publishes the newsletter Drezner’s World.