Nothing much today. Too busy preparing for Frankenstorm. There’s no better illustration of what’s broken about “horse race” campaign coverage than the proliferation of analysis about how it might impact the Presidential race.
First-world problem of the day: getting ready for the storm entails a bit of a rush, as we’re in the middle of an addition. The crew is scrambling to get the last of the roofing on. The yard is a disaster waiting for high winds to make it worse.
What about our many readers who live in the likely storm path? How are you preparing (or not)?
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.
I am preparing for the storm by continuing to live in Idaho where we refuse to fund natural disasters.