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by Dan Nexon

26 January 2013, 1110 EST

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The Mali campaign continues. As does the Syrian civil war. And the UN is seeking an expanded mandate in the Congo.
Anonymous hacks the United States Sentencing Commission’s website in retaliation for aggressive prosecution of Swartz.
Jennifer Lind argues that Japanese politicians must confront their country’s past.
Anton Stezhnev isn’t so sure about Chris Fair et al.’s new piece in the Atlantic on drone strikes and Pakistani public opinion.
Alex Harrowell rounds up some pretty random financial-crisis stuff. There unifying theme, of sorts, is in the title.

And also:

The Pew Research Center wants to know “how Millennial are you?”
An interesting review of Hilary Putnam’s Philosophy in the Age of Science: Physics, Mathematics, and Skepticism (via 3QD).
How do you know the shelf life of a book is coming to its end? When its sales rank at Amazon consistently pushes 1000K.
Another HD version of a game that I don’t have time to play.
Adam Elkus provides a different kind of riff on Zero Dark Thirty.

Dan Nexon

Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.

He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.

He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.