Monday Morning Linkage

29 October 2012, 1016 EDT

Follow Mitt Romney’s storm tips on twitter.
Remember that Sandy has already killed over 60 people in the Caribbean, and that many of those deaths are tied (in one way or another) to the unequal distribution of global wealth.
Star Wars pork, or how to alienate the Jedi voting bloc?
Over at The Disorder of Things, Pablo K. weighs in on the Human Security Report and engages with Megan’s critique here at the Duck.
Natural-resource policy for Burma.
Daniel Little discusses “character” as an analytic category.

And:

I am amazed by the number of newspaper endorsements of Romney that (1) blame Obama for Republican intransigence, (2) argue that the deficit is the most pressing immediate problem facing the country, and (3) somehow think that the party most responsible for the current deficit will fix it. Dave Schuler collects and notes: “The reasons for the dissatisfaction most frequently mentioned are the state of the economy and the president’s apparent lack of ability to reach across the aisle to get Republicans to support his proposals. Assign the blame where you will but the buck stops with the president.” This sentiment, echoed in the Romney endorsements, is simply bizarre. It conjoins a monarchical theory of the Presidency with a stunning lack of interest in empirical analysis.

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.