It’s that time of year in the Georgetown Government Department… when we juggle financial aid offers and admissions in an attempt to lock down a strong incoming class of PhD students. This takes up lots of my mental energy, leaving little for the Duck of Minerva.
- The current DAG-3QD Peace and Justice Symposium concerns one of Charli’s favorite topics: Drones.
- This may come as a shock to longtime readers, but almost twenty years ago I interned for Joshua Moravchik at the American Enterprise Institute. Moravchik has a review of Robert Lieber’s Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the United States is not Destined to Decline. Bob is a colleague and something of a Georgetown institution.
- Marshall Sahlins resigned a few days ago from the National Academy of Sciences. Serena Golden explains what happened.
- “Early Modern Digital Agendas” at the Folger looks pretty interesting.
- The deadline for submitting papers to the 8th Annual Pan-European Conference on International Relations is tomorrow. Or maybe Sunday. But the countdown in the submission window suggests that it is, indeed, the 28th.
And also:
- The new editorial team for International Studies Quarterly will be decided at the next International Studies Association meeting. My understanding is that no matter which bid gets selected, there will be a Duck of Minerva presence on the editorial team. Cool.
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
Re Marshall Sahlins: His Islands of History, the one bk of his I’ve read, is quite interesting; some general reflections at the end about “structure” and “event” which might resonate w certain IR types. Also have on the shelf, pretty much unread, his Apologies to Thucydides, which contains among other things a study of the Elian Gonzalez affair.
(P.s. The Lieber link is broken.)