Spent the morning recording a podcast. Except that we just chatted and never got around to the actual interview. Then it was off to job talks and child chauffeuring….
- Tom Z. Collina doesn’t like the idea of a BMD system for the US east coast.
- Dan Drezner says that China is involved in a security dilemma with ASEAN. I’m not so sure: it looks to me like Beijing is being expansionist and that’s provoking its neighbors.
- Noorjahan Akbar reports on civil-society building in Afghanistan.
- Australia will abstain on the Palestine recognition vote at the UN.
- Robert McMillan and Spencer Ackerman discuss the ongoing “cyberwar” between Israel and Hamas.
- David S. Meyer reflects on the role of nudity in political protest.
- P O’Neil on interwar public debt in the UK and France… and GDP growth.
- SF Signal on the re-release of Morcock’s Nomads of the Time Stream series.
- More unsound anti-gay parenting analysis from the usual suspects.
And:
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.
- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
- Dan Nexonhttps://www.duckofminerva.com/author/dhnexon
The article on Australia’s UN PA vote got it exactly right:
“This may be a largely symbolic vote of dubious value to Palestine, but at least some of Israel’s friends are starting to question whether supporting Israel always means doing what Netanyahu wants.”
Not only Australia’s vote, but also the EU split, are a big deal in this regards.