Saturday Morning Linkage

8 September 2012, 1459 EDT

Hayes Brown discusses the Armenia-Azerbaijan state of play.
Robert’s been giving you the ground-level view of Pyongyang. Here’s the satellite-eye view (via Kelsey Atherton).
Henry Farrell on the European Central Bank’s new program.
How much is the economy, let alone the long-term unemployed, being hurt by the Republican-forced expiration of unemployment benefits? And why aren’t we talking about it?
At Howl at Pluto: an interesting debate among LFC, Kindred Winecoff, and Phil Arena about methods, models, and so forth.
Lavie Tidhar explores “Heinlein and Racism,” but not in the sense of textual analysis.
BLTN: the Smoked-Filled Room is transitioning to a borg-blog, but with PhD students. It didn’t take long for its staff to realize just how damn hard it is to maintain regular content.

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.