Monday Morning Linkage

5 November 2012, 1031 EST

Laleh Khalili’s Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford, 2012) looks fascinating.
An interesting piece by Karen Burhnam (at SF Signal) on what the discovery of a rocky planet around Alpha Centauri means for human deep-space exploration.
Alexandra Gheciu at CIPSBlog on intervention in Mali.
Suparna Chaudhry takes a retrospective look at the the Sino-Indian war of 1962.
John Holbo discusses the “Year of the MOOC” (that’s “Massive Open Online Courses”).
Spencer Ackerman looks at the current state of bureaucratic CYA and other confusions surrounding the US response to the 9/11 Benghazi attack.
Suparna
David Shor’s closing argument against Romney foreign policy.

And also:

There’s much buzz concerning Rick Perlstein’s account of the ‘conservativism snake-oil industry.’
Jeff Strabone at 3QD: “how not to abolish the electoral college.”
I’ve got some ISA-NE goodness coming up soon: an interview with Nick Onuf, the SF and Pedagogy roundtable, and the Northeast Circle’s discussion of Lauren Wilcox’s book manuscript.

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.