New Page: Academia and Graduate School

7 August 2012, 1911 EDT

I’ve put together a collection, albeit not a comprehensive one, of posts at the Duck of Minerva that focus on what might be called “the profession.” The link is now a tab (Academia and Graduate School) below our banner.

The rationale? Many of our most consistently popular pieces — including ones that still get significant hits years after their publication — fall into this category, so I think it might be a good service to try to consolidate links to them.

In theory, post labels should do that, but after seven years of myriad bloggers our “labels” are a disaster. We have over a thousand; they seem to break the blogger widget, which I have been unable to reinstall.

The page remains a work in progress. We’ll add more posts over time. Noticeable absences include Brian Rathbun’s cutting pieces on the discipline.

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.