Saturday Morning Linkage

25 August 2012, 1358 EDT

The emergence of Ahn Cheol Soo as a contender in the upcoming South Korean election (via B&T).
Chris Clary on Pakistan’s nuclear program.
Zenpundit reflects on the precarious position of the National Defense University.
A knowledgable and connected friend sends me a link to Foreign Policy‘s “silly” list of Top 50 Republican international-affairs experts. Friend’s comment: “there are only 2-3 non-crazy people on this list.”
This Charlie Cook piece is symptomatic of everything that’s wrong with conventional horse-race analysis. But tweeting John Sides gets results, so The Monkey Cage is on the case.
Jason Brennan argues that Paul Ryan is not an Objectivist but, in libertarian terms, a statist conservative. Sure. But the really interesting issue thing is how Rand became a key touchstone for a wide variety of people whose only commitment to “liberty” involves defending the interests of large corporations.
Yiddish curses for Jewish Republicans. My favorite:

I have now accumulated NBN podcasts with Melanie Ashby, David B. Coe, David Herter, Ken MacLeod, and Meg Spooner. Many more on the way, so the channel will be launching in about a week. Also, my wife proclaimed the latest Duck of Minerva ‘cast “really interesting,” which is an unusual endorsement and good reason for our readers to check it out.

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.