Video blogging: should the US facilitate the cantonization of Iraq?

13 July 2006, 1727 EDT

Foreign Affairs magazine has been running both a print and on-line forum on the future of US policy towards Iraq. If you haven’t read it yet, get yourself over there and take a look.

In my second experiment in videoblogging, I take issue with Chaim Kaufmann‘s contribution to the original forum. To be fair to Kaufmann, my response is oriented more towards his broader argument about ethnic partition as a solution to ethno-nationalist civil war than to his specific proposals for Iraq.

Let me add some thoughts on videoblogging. I’m still not sure about this medium. Text provides a far more efficient way of communicating ideas. Still, videoblogging does involve a “personal touch” lacking from text-based blogging. Bill, in fact, asked me why I’m experimenting with the medium. The answer is that I intend to use it in my teaching when I return to Georgetown, so doing it on the Duck will help me get used to the process and I hope, learn how to do it right.

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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.