Wednesday Morning Linkage

15 August 2012, 1545 EDT

  • North Korea: future REM exporter?
  • Washington accuses Iran of training Syrian militia. It seems to me that the “meddling in Syrian affairs” ship has long sailed. 
  • Hayes Brown repots on”Somalia’s Struggle for Normalcy.” 
  • Thomas Oatley argues that breaking up the Eurozone won’t solve anything. 
  • BLTN: Paul Staniland on “Victory in Afghanistan.”
  • What causes democracy? James Vreeland and his collaborators dispute numerous variants of conventional wisdom. 
  • Phil Arena holds a grudge… but it’s rational.
  • Joshua Hersh’s piece on Paul Ryan and foreign policy was getting lots of play on Twitter yesterday. 
  • Evidence for an anti-Muslim crime wave in the US.
  • Parallels between being “scooped” in fiction writing and academia.
  • Part II of the Dark Knight Schmittapolooza.
  • I finished interviews with Ted Hopf and David Coe yesterday. The former will podcast this weekend, the latter likely in September as part of the NBN SF/F channel. 
Website |  + posts

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.