Saturday Morning Linkage

2 February 2013, 1041 EST

I am sitting in a David’s Bridal while my daughter picks out a flower-girl dress. If I were looking at ESPN.com then the stereotype would be complete.

We are anxiously (and by “anxiously,” I mean “not very anxiously”) awaiting the results of the first-round voting for the OAIS blogging awards. Once our crack guy-with-a-survey-account sends them to me, we will post.

No podcast this week. I am working on transcoding all of them to mp3 format and lining up some interviews. FWIW, I’ve followed up on most of the suggestions I got some months ago, and have some commitments for “eventual” interviews.

What’s on deck for today? Let’s see:

Alex Montgomery eviscerates part of my post about book reviews.
Dan Drezner thinks that recent events throw a wrench into the “string of pearls” theory of PRC grand strategy.
Manila purchases FA-50s from the ROK.
Apparently former Asian Prime Ministers have joined the “East Asia is like pre-WWI Europe” mode of analysis, with China playing the part of Wilhelmite Germany. I wrote an undergraduate paper in 1993 about this comparison, and it was derivative of existing literature.
Current events roundup from UN Dispatch, because the dress is now being purchased and I have to leave soon.

And also:

Mark V. Vlasic lauds the Obama Administration’s actions on stolen asset recovery.
Does this mean we’re all going to have to discuss Eric Schmidt and Joshua Cohen’s geotechnopolitical^TM prognostications? Meh.
The status of the Elsevier boycott (via Jordan Ellenberg)
Daniel Little on “the rationale for philosophy of social science.” Why is PTJ out of the country when you need him?
STEM politics. The conservative backlash against the liberal arts — you know, the arena that preserves the cultural dimension of Burke’s contract among generations — made more sense in the 1980s and 1990s when we were in the midst of the canon wars.
James P. Baylock discusses steampunk.

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.