Over a century after the end of World War I, it still demands deeper understanding from us, if we hope to avoid such disasters in the future.
My paper on 'Game Theory and the First World War' has appeared in Journal of Economic Literature. doi.org/10.1257/jel.20…

This week's local elections in Northern Ireland should show what political cost the DUP has paid for obstructing regional government since 2022. Then people should ask whether the remedy may be to devolve more responsibility to local governments: home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/belf…

The new book from CEPR on Supporting Ukraine (editors Yuriy Gorodnichenko, V. Rashkovan) includes my chapter on Postwar Reconstruction Assistance and Local Governments in Ukraine. home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/ukra…

It was a privilege to participate at Berkeley this week in the discussion on Rebuilding Ukraine with Barry Eichengreen, Gerard Roland., and Yuriy Gorodnichenko
youtu.be/XjcEzD3bGfw

Join us for 'Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and Policies', a lecture ft. Berkeley Economics Faculty, where they discuss Ukraine and their recovery efforts.
Yuriy Gorodnichenko Barry Eichengreen Gerard Roland.

2/14/23 | 3-4:30 PM | Social Sciences Matrix, 820

RSVP: bit.ly/3HRZKxT

Stabilization Lessons From The British Empire
When Britain had a potent global operation for foreign political stabilization, its interventions were directed by a decentralized team of district officers who engaged with local political realities.
tnsr.org/2022/11/stabil…

'State-building goes wrong when local politics is ignored.' Roger B. Myerson Roger Myerson examines Local Politics and Democratic State-Building in the latest issue of Journal of Democracy Read now, subscription free: bit.ly/3T90B0Z

My review of Keith Mines's important book 'Why Nation-Building Matters' is included in an outstanding new issue of PRISM at ndupress.ndu.edu/PRISM/PRISM-10…

To learn from failures of past state-building missions, we must rethink our fundamental theories of democracy. My new paper in Journal of Democracy argues for the vital importance of local politics in democratic state-building. muse.jhu.edu/article/866642

On Sept 17, I will be in NYC to join Paul Krugman, John Herbst, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Tymofii Brik, Jen Brick Murtazashvili, and many others at an event for Ukraine and the Kyiv School of Economics.
Please consider joining us! 🇺🇦Register or donate here: kse.ua/ua/events/?eid…

I recently discussed two underappreciated aspects of the situation in Ukraine: the impact of recent decentralization reforms in Ukraine, and why Putin should want to relax censorship of war news in Russia. See home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/ukra…
and youtube.com/watch?v=h0QsBL…

...Correction: our discussion about Russia's War on Ukraine was recorded on March 16, 2022. You can watch it at youtu.be/b2DYc45vKrM?li…

On March 21, I had the privilege of joining Mark Cancian and Evan Thomas in a conversation about Russia's War on Ukraine. See classacthr73.org/conversation-o…

To support Ukraine more effectively against Russian aggression, American leaders should be urged to talk more about the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 and less about the future of NATO. <voxukraine.org/en/president-o…>

In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, America and Britain promised to assure Ukraine's independence (so that Ukraine would surrender its Soviet nuclear weapons to Russia). Invoking this treaty could help Ukraine more than a distant prospect of NATO membership. huffpost.com/entry/america-…

Tom Tugendhat, a British MP and Afghanistan veteran, has spoken critical words that Americans need to hear: <youtube.com/watch?v=chhy1T…> '...Let's stop talking about forever wars. Forever peace is bought, not cheaply, but hard, through determination and the will to endure.'

On how to prepare for future stabilization missions, see Keith Mines book 'Why Nation-Building Matters' and my extensive review of it: home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson/rese…

The Special Inspector General on Afghan Reconstruction reminds us today that 'declining to prepare [for future stabilization missions] after Vietnam did not prevent the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; instead, it ensured they would become quagmires.'
sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslea…

To achieve unity, Joe Biden should visit the reddest states, to talk with voters and local officials about their concerns. Recent Democratic congressional candidates can assist this outreach to red-state voters. See <thehill.com/opinion/campai…> (with Kael Weston).

How does market socialism in China resemble federalism in America? This was discussed at the Institute for New Structural Economics in Beijing; see <econciv.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/on-…>.