Daniel Wirls wirls@ucsc.edu wirls@ucsc.edu Daniel Wirls’ research interests range across American politics, institutions, public policy, and political history. Most Recent Trump’s Planned Military Buildup is Based on Faulty Claims, not Good Strategy Daniel Wirls Latest Articles 1 The Limits of Middle Power Idealism by Mohamed Amersi and Akmaral Batalova 2 Mapping the Self: How Memetic Identity Reframes Psychotherapy by Scott Douglas Jacobsen 3 Lord Mandelson: Trapped in the Epstein Web by Binoy Kampmark 4 Why Japan and South Korea Must Coordinate on AI by Ju Hyung Kim 5 After Assad, the Reckoning Syria Still Can’t Escape by Kemi Alawode