Mortara Center Blog

24 September 2005, 1349 EDT

The Mortara Center for International Studies at Georgetown University, with which I will renew my affiliation when I return next year, has a weblog.

So far there are three posts.

The most recent is by Jeff Anderson, the Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies. He provides a short post-mortem on the German elections and predicts that ” neither Schroeder nor Merkel will succeed in becoming chancellor.”

There is also a debate between Carol Lancaster, the Director of the Mortara Center, and Michael Hawes, a Visiting Professor in the Government Department, over John Bolton at the UN.

I’m very pleased that the Center is experimenting with the blog format; it dovetails very nicely with Georgetown’s “public intellectual” mission in the domain of political studies.

So far, the blog looks a lot like such recent forays: a group of very smart experts on a field publishing mini-opinion editorials. Not much in the way of external linkage, but I suspect that will come with time. Moreover, Georgetown’s technology people, for what I imagine are carefully considered reasons, decided to build their blog engine from scratch; they’ve implemented trackback functionality – which they consider to be the wave of the future – but not comments. That’s a bummer (particularly for those of us who would’ve liked to have use “Georgetown Blogs” for teaching purposes), but I hope the lack of a comments thread doesn’t deter anyone from checking back in with the Mortara center on a regular basis.

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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.