Noontime Linkage

30 July 2012, 1556 EDT

The battle for Aleppo continues.
Barbara Walter doesn’t think much of Syria’s “chemical weapons bluff.”
David Axe explains how German Typhoons took on US F-22s.
BJ Keefe calls attention to an hour-long talk by Richard Rhodes, nuclear-weapons historian extraordinaire.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden calls this piece on Machiavelli and Florence “one of the best pieces of historical writing I have read on a blog.” It is awfully good, but there’s something inherently wrong with mentioning The Prince without any acknowledgment of the existence of The Discourses. As, um, we do in virtually every “Intro to International Relations” class. It distorts the intellectual status of the former as something other than a special case of the general propositions found in the latter.
“Kirk your Enthusiasm” launches at HiLoBrow.

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.