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by Dan Nexon

30 May 2012, 1409 EDT

The new TRIP survey is out. While the overall findings don’t hold many surprises, there are some nuggets of interest. We’ll have more to say later, but for now I want to call out a particular finding. 

Every survey asks the question “aside from you, please list four scholars who have produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years.” In some respects, this question functions as a proxy for “most influential,” as the list:
  • Is very similar to the one for “four scholars who have had the greatest influence on the field of IR in the past 20 years”; and 
  • Contains a few people who, despite their big brains and mighty influence, haven’t produced much in the way of published work in the past five years. 

Given those two points, I’m particularly impressed by the presence of a single scholar from my cohort among the top twenty. 

W00t!!!

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.

12 Comments

  2. Michael Turner
    Michael Turner on 30 May 2012 at 15.00 EDT

    Congrats PTJ! Weren’t you also the 17th in your family?

  3. Charli Carpenter
    Charli Carpenter on 30 May 2012 at 15.03 EDT

    Sweet! 

  4. Jon Western
    Jon Western on 30 May 2012 at 15.10 EDT

    Very cool!  

  6. Halvard
    Halvard on 30 May 2012 at 15.53 EDT

    PTJ – goes without saying that they have not asked anyone at NUPI. We would have pushed you into the top ten! Congrats.

  7. Gerard van der Ree
    Gerard van der Ree on 30 May 2012 at 18.04 EDT

    I think ‘awesome’ is a word that would be well in place here. And ‘well-deserved’. And ‘congratulations’.

  9. MJ
    MJ on 30 May 2012 at 21.42 EDT

    Intriguing.  Wonder what accounts for the big fan club in New Zealand

  10. MCH
    MCH on 30 May 2012 at 22.16 EDT

    Nice! Also, someday we’ll figure out how to phrase these questions to solve the “but that person hasn’t actually published in the last 5 years” problem. . . .

  11. Mshirk
    Mshirk on 30 May 2012 at 23.01 EDT

    Congratulations!

    I must say that is a very interesting list

  12. LFC
    LFC on 31 May 2012 at 01.20 EDT

    Congrats.

    (Some US v rest-of-world stuff seems to be going on in the voting, btw…)