National “writing for the public” program coming to the Jackson School
August 11, 2021
Want to write an Op-Ed on whether the U.S. is an empire? Craft a policy memo on the War on Drugs happening in Mexico, Brazil and the U.S.? What would
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Prof. Bessner is accepting new MA students for the 2026-2027 academic year Daniel Bessner is the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy at the...
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Daniel Bessner reviews Barack Obama memoir, Robert Gates’ post-Cold War book for Jacobin and n+1
February 9, 2021
In”Don’t Trust the Process” Daniel Bessner, an associate professor of the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, reviews Barack Obama’s memoir A Promised Land (Crown, Nov. 2020), which Jacobin published on Feb. 8.
Daniel Bessner on what Call of Duty video games say about US foreign policy // The Drift
February 2, 2021
In an article titled “First-Person Shooter Ideology | The Cultural Contradictions of Call of Duty” Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization Daniel Bessner, an associate professor, examines what the new version of Call of
Daniel Bessner on what’s behind the QAnon cult, and how can we confront it? // Jacobin Magazine
January 19, 2021
In “How the QAnon Cult Stormed the Capitol” Daniel Bessner, an associate professor of the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, co-authors an article exploring who and what are behind the
Daniel Bessner on Trump’s threat to democracy as a position of weakness // Jacobin Magazine
January 19, 2021
In “Trump Is a Threat to Democracy. But That Doesn’t Mean He’s Winning” Daniel Bessner, an associate professor of the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, co-authors a piece asserting
Daniel Bessner quoted on a more progressive US-China policy // The Nation
January 12, 2021
In “Biden’s China Problem: Resisting a New Cold War in Asia” Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor, Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization at the Jackson School, shares his ideas on
Daniel Bessner discusses age limits for elected leaders // CNN
October 19, 2020
Daniel Bessner, who holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, is the featured commentator in a CNN story about whether the U.S. should impose age limits on elected
Can the American university be saved? Daniel Bessner gives his analysis in The Nation
September 9, 2020
Daniel Bessner, associate professor of the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, analyzes how “the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the glaring contradictions in American higher education” in his article
Daniel Bessner quoted in an article about behind-the-scenes of Biden’s foreign policy // 48hills
August 31, 2020
Daniel Bessner, Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization, is quoted in an article titled “Foreign Correspondent: Inside Biden’s international policy“, an analysis about Joe Biden’s past and present approach
Faculty Daniel Bessner interviews alum Matt Duss about Bernie Sanders foreign policy doctrine // Jacobin Magazine
August 20, 2020
In “The Bernie Sander Doctrine on Foreign Policy” Daniel Bessner, Jackson School faculty of U.S. foreign policy, interviews Matt Duss, who graduated with a master’s degree from the Jackson School and