In honor of the upcoming election: “James K. Polk” by They Might Be Giants.
- Hot off the presses: Megan H. MacKenzie’s Foreign Affairs article that advocates putting women in combat roles.
- Jason Fritz unloads in “the rank hypocrisy of veterans on OPSEC.”
- This looks like an interesting short course for the international-relations theory set.
- Steve Saideman on the “irony” of Fox News as a “true American” foreign import.
- Brigit Meyer discusses one of my favorite subjects: “secularization and disenchantment” (via 3QD)
- Henry Farrell has a great post on the (low) value of “insider knowledge.” There’s an interesting synergy with relationalist criticisms of standard stories. Insider knowledge tends to not merely privilege, but obsesses over, standard-story accounts of politics.
- “Crowdsourcing the Evaluation of Post-Sandy Building Damage Using Aerial Imagery” by Patrick Meier.
And also:
- The slow-motion death of pubic education (via LGM).
- Rob Farley (at LGM) discusses the right-wing blogsphere’s “War on Math.”
- Tim Burke reflects on ten years of blogging.
- Five Duck Kudos® to the first person to identify the source of my “cow-with-halberd” costume. Note: Duck Kudos® are non-transferrable, non-redeemable, and have no monetary value.
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.
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Is the cow costume a reference to Diablo II’s cow level?
We have a winner!
Well, I can see my undergrad years weren’t completely wasted.
The only cows with halberds I know are from the secret cow level in Diablo. I feel weird just saying that.