Morning Linkage

19 July 2012, 1515 EDT

Josh Rovner argues that AirSea Battle is a “myth” that threatens nuclear escalation with China.
Henry Farrell writes up a recent piece by Alex Downes and Todd Sechser attacking the notion that democracies issue more credible threats than non-democracies. The comments (excluding mine) are worth reading as well.
The Rising Powers Initiative highlights regional commentary on the ASEAN forum debacle.
As always, Justin Gengler is worth reading on what’s happening in Bahrain.
W. Jonathan Rue tells InsideIran that Tehran can close the Straits of Hormuz — temporarily (via).
Archeological discoveries have led to a revisionist history of the… bra.
My field spends some — but not enough — time worrying about gender diversity at its associations and conferences. Apparently the same concerns can be found in the SF community.
Phil Arena’s post on rational-choice theory and preference cycling is ancient by blog-standard (i.e., a few days old), but well worth your time.

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.