The Duck of Minerva

Monday Morning Linkage

by Dan Nexon

13 August 2012, 1230 EDT

  • Steve Walt ponders what the 2012 election means for US foreign policy.
  • Chandras Choudry discusses India Against Corruption as it takes on the national parliament (via Zachary Keck).
  • Marc Lynch describes “The Morsi Maneuver: A First Take” as a good, well, first take on the Egyptian defense purge. 
  • Edward Hugh has a post looking back at the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 and asking the age-old question: why didn’t anyone do anything to stop it? As the post is called the “Owl of Minerva,” I am obliged to link to it. Nevertheless, I feel that our blog’s title contains an implicit answer to that question.
  • A Guardian chart compares the Syrian military to the Free Syrian Army (via Atherton).
  • Michael Krepon evaluates whether the salience of nuclear weapons to global politics is growing or shrinking.
  • Phil Arena weighs in on the “End of IR Theory” debate.
  • Jason Fritz comes pretty close to invoking Starship Troopers in his discussion of the Obama campaign’s Ohio early-voting lawsuit. First comment goes there. 
  • Jeff VanderMeer riff-rants on the future of (fiction) publishing. 
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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.

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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.

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