Tuesday Morning Linkage

16 October 2012, 0907 EDT

Democrats are struggling to explain the math behind the Romney-Ryan tax cut proposal. Such forest-for-the-trees stuff isn’t really helping. They need to make the big argument: Romney’s policies are the same failed policies offered during the Bush Administration, and here’s why Obama’s proposals will work better.
Mark Bowden chronicles the operation that killed Bin Laden.
Juan Cole discusses estimates of drone causalities.
Marc Lynch on Tunisian instability.
James Joyner makes the case for NATO getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
Andrew Kydd riffs on the discussion of timetables in the VP debate.
Mobilizing Ideas holds its latest dialogue on “organization theory and social movements.
An attempt to test the “simulation” hypothesis.
The most expensive colleges. And man, are they expensive.
David Coe worries that we pay too much attention to author popularity in fantasy and science fiction. I wonder if the arguments travel to citation counts and academic sales ranks?
Lisa Leitz looks at Wonder Woman, feminist protests, and the “need for a hero.”

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.