Tuesday Morning Linkage

14 August 2012, 1230 EDT

Irena L. Sargsyan warns of renewed conflict between Kurdish-Arab conflict.
Matthew Kocher writes a post centered around Jeffrey A. Friedman’s working paper on “breakthrough problems” (PDF).
Daniel Little ruminates on “mobilizing the masses” and the Chinese Revolution.
Paul Dibbs argues against a grand accommodation with China (via Andrew Phillips).
Robin Banerji & Patrick Jackson (of the BBC) write about China’s “Ghost Towns and Phantom Malls.”
Dean Dad says “don’t get a PhD in the humanities!”
Andrew Liptak on Hugo Gernsback, the “father of science fiction.”
Cosmopolis’s message? Contemporary fiction is bust (via Paul McAuley).
In the “better late than never linkage” department: Spencer Ackerman profiles the analyst whose report on right-wing extremism led to a storm of protest…. protest that looks even dumber now than it did at the time.

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.