The owl may spread its wings, but the Duck merely quacks and paddles around

5 October 2005, 0027 EDT

If you’re coming here via Henry Farrell’s Chronicle of Higher Education article, take a look around and let us know what you think.

A particularly warm “hello” to any international-relations scholars who might be new here. I think it is about time to admit that we all read (at least) Daniel Drezner’s blog anyway, so maybe it is time to really get onboard with blogging :-).

Heck, the worst thing that could happen is that it fizzles out, like all those listservs many of us were on in the mid- and late-1990s.

By the way, if you write, or know of, an IR-related blog we should be reading, email me and I’ll add it to our blogroll.

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.