New Guest Bloggers!!!

1 April 2011, 1820 EDT

We’re very excited that Steve Saideman and Brian Rathbun have agreed to join the Duck as guest bloggers – the first of a few new voices that may be trickling into the guest blogging pool over the next few months.

You may already know Steve him from his blog–Steve Saideman’s Semi-Spew–or from his extensive publication record. His first post, on, the Tom Rick’s criticisms of Peter Faever’s recent International Security article, appeared earlier today.

Brian is new to blogging but teaches at University of Southern California and is the author of Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans. Besides party politics, humanitarian intervention, and foreign policy, Brian specializes in political psychological approaches to IR, among other things, and his new project is on trust in international relations.

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.