Michael S. Chase reports on the internal Chinese debate over Beijing’s role in international affairs.- A new China Security Report from Japan’s National Institute of Defense Studies (via Taylor Fravel).
- Daniel Larison sees Chuck Hagel’s potential SecDef appointment as a wakeup call to the GOP about its continued embrace of neo-conservative foreign-policy principles at the expense of realism and what used to be called “establishment internationalism.”
- Robert W. Merry discusses the growing attacks on Hagel for his statements on Israel. Steve Walt describes the developing kerfuffle as “the art of the smear.”
- John Hannah blames the Obama Administration for “Syria’s disaster.”
- Two pieces at Registan.net on the anniversary of the violence in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan. Also Joshua Foust on the “contradictions of Kazakhstan’s national narrative.”
- The Global Sociology Blog presents some basic scatterplots about guns and violence in advanced industrial democracies (via Rob Trager).
- Jonathan Ladd points us toward “some experiments examining the connection” between “gun ownership and authoritarian notions of masculinity.”
- BLTN: Philip Krausse discusses “Of Institutions and Butterflies.”
- UBS to pay $1.5 billion for LIBOR manipulation.
- The Benghazi report is out.
And also:
- Tau Ceti may have planets in its inhabitable belt. With increasing evidence of possible way-points within fifty light years, the possibility of interstellar expansion for our distant descendants looks more plausible.
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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