Midweek Linkage

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by Dan Nexon

20 March 2013, 0945 EDT

I’ve realized that it is mathematically impossible to finish what I need to get done before ISA. So this will be brief.

Some of this morning’s world-politics headlines: deposit levy fails in Cyprus, leading to emergency talks; ROK banking and television computer networks hit by “virus”; and Al Qaeda in Africa claims to have beheaded a French hostage.
Joe Cirincione rips into the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. And more on the Phase 4 announcement from Collina, Kimball, and Thielmann.
Henry Farrell on Acemboglu’s and Robinon’s political evolution, reflected in a new paper arguing that a “theory of politics” should shift economic analysis of the benefits of unions.
Steve Saideman: Iraq War “not the Single Worst Decision in the History of American Foreign Policy^TM.”
The new issue of Perspective on Politics contains a piece by Kate McNamara and Dan Drezner on the 2008 crisis and International Political Economy.

And also:

David Herter’s Third Republic Trilogy is “now complete on Kindle.” I’ve mentioned this before, but if you haven’t read Ceres Storm or this trilogy, you’re missing out.

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.