I canna think of a good title, captain!

27 August 2011, 0047 EDT

As the forces of nature marshall for an attack on the east coast, I thought I’d call attention to Belfer’s new blog, Power & Policy (via SW). If it becomes a breakout hit, we just might have to think our whole lack of institutional affiliation approach.

(I thought of making some kind of lame “power” joke. Something along the lines of, “better check them out until they’re just “policy.” But then I thought better of it.)

My parents got an advanced taste of devastation when a microburst completely blocked their summer house from the road by taking down a ton of trees. I got them out with my trusty Subaru and an extra-large ice coffee. Because nothing stops a man with a gay-friendly car and lots of caffeine.

We’ve stockpiled wine, flashlights, and graphic novels. What about the rest of our right-coast bloggers and readers?

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.