Weekend Omnibus

10 February 2013, 1531 EST

Slow weekend at the Duck, eh? Some of our bloggers are snowed in. Not sure how to explain the rest of us. I’ve been playing lots of FTL and working on a manuscript review. And the kid’s been sick. So here’s some stuff resembling content:

More trade networks from Thomas Oatley.
Did Steve Walt rename “offshore balancing” “a more distant and hands-off strategy?” Hard to tell. But it doesn’t seem like a step forward in the science of branding.
Jeffrey C. Isaac: “Political Science Departments and Political Advocacy: Some Reflections By an Academic Liberal Who Believes in the Importance of Admittedly Fuzzy Boundaries.”
Historical institutionalism meets the War on Terror. Okay, that’s not exactly what numerous posts on the subject of Bush-Obama continuity say… but they might as well.
Richard Samuel’s overviews changing Japanese strategic discourse (PDF).

And also:

Sex, politics, and Cuba.
JFK: great American “blank slate.”
My this-started-out-about-one-thing-and-then-morphed-and-now-I’ve-got-to-go-to-a-meeting-and-I-might-as-well-just-put-it-up post has accrued some good feedback, which means I’ll have to put something coherent up about the “new structuralism” in international-relations scholarship. Or at least reply to comments.
Another episode in the Chronicles of MOOC.
“Here’s to the man who drinks water pure and goes to bed quite sober…. He’ll die before October!” (via Dave Schuler).

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.