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 From Ruins to Resin: A Curator’s Fight to Save Ukrainian Heritage by Scott Douglas Jacobsen 2 The Global Arms Market is Moving On Without America by Julian McBride 3 Soft Power Isn’t Charity—It’s Strategy. So Why Are We Gutting It? by Jared O. Bell 4 With Washington Hostile, China’s Solar Industry Seeks Pastures Elsewhere by Du Feifei 5 Trump, Planes and the Arabian Gulf Tour by Binoy Kampmark