Eric Reeves at TNR’s &c.

19 July 2005, 0329 EDT

Eric Reeves is guest posting on Darfur at TNR’s blog. The Editor’s note:

His contributions will add up to a sort of crash-course on the Darfur genocide–moving from posts today on the genocide’s history, to posts in coming days on the inadequate response of the international community, to posts toward the end of the week on what it would realistically take to bring the genocide to a halt.

I may occasionally teach a course on genocide, but Reeves is the real deal. I’m looking forward to his later posts in particular, as “solutions” to Darfur, let alone genocides in general, are usually either politically impractical or insufficient.

On the topic of Darfur, Eaglespeak points to reports that al-Qaeda is setting up shop in Somalia.

I don’t mean to sound churlish, but I remember when mainline Democrats argued that the US couldn’t ignore mass violence and state collapse because it would eventually threaten US security, while “selective engagement” was the hot conservative grand strategy. This memory occupies similar cognitive space, at least for me, as Al Gore singing the praises of international engagement (and the example of the Marshall Plan) during the 2000 Presidential debates.

Partisans can interpret this any way they’d like. Perhaps the Democrats were prescient; perhaps they’ve lost their way….

Filed as: genocide

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.