Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage

16 July 2013, 1021 EDT

Henry Farrell and Abe Newman have a new piece at Foreign Affairs Online on the NSA’s surveillance of European Union officials. They argue, among other things, that: “For the last several years, those interested in promoting intelligence sharing with the United States have been winning. If European governments now decide to curtail that cooperation — a decision that seems increasingly likely — Washington will have only itself to blame.”
International water law and the slide toward conflict over the Nile.
Brent Sasley offers “some thoughts on the EU decision to separate Israel from the West Bank.”
Emerging markets aren’t doing so well right now.
Private Kuwaiti actors and the Syrian civil war.
David Ucko looks at the merits of negotiating with the Taliban.
Who among us reads most of the material that we cite? Not many, according to this study (via Peter Schouten).

And also:

Journal of Experimental Political Science now open for submissions in grand publishing experiment. Indeed, I expect Josh Tucker and Rebecca Morton to conduct lots of internal experiments on the peer-review process.

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.