Morning Linkage

21 July 2012, 1524 EDT

Lots of people are talking (e.g.) about the McKibben climate-change article in Rolling Stone.
China Defense Blog points to reports that the PRC will deploy a military garrison in the South China Sea.
Kieran Healy compares rates of violence in the United States to those found in the rest of the OECD countries.
Jamestown’s China Daily Brief carries a report on Uzbekistan, China, and balance-of-power politics in Central Asia.
Jason Fritz provides perspective on AVF-vs-draft arguments.
Blood and Treasure mocks the USIP post-Assad Syria plan and also points out that: “One thing about China and Russia’s blocking of UN action on Syria which hasn’t been considered is the fact that it gives the Saudis and the GCC states a free-er hand in shaping a post-Assad Syria through direct military support to their favoured rebels without wider international oversight.”

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.