Linkage Week in Review

21 April 2013, 1059 EDT

Our readers may have noticed the lack of Saturday linkage. I was at the MD/PA/WV/VA combined state Tumbling and Trampoline state championships, in a facility with Faraday-cage properties. I am pleased to say that my daughter qualified for National Junior Olympics in her two main events — trampoline and double-mini trampoline. Along the way she took first place and fourth place, for Maryland, in her age-group and level. Below is video for her Level 6 tramp routine.

Although most Americans’ attention was focused on the dramatic apprehension of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, quite a lot of significant events happened around the world. For example:

China appeared to abandon its no-first use pledge for nuclear weapons.
China’s had trouble getting aid to a remote part of Sichuan provence hit by a major earthquake.
The EU brokered a game-changing deal between Serbia and Kosovo.
The US is paying more for its overseas basing network (via LFC).
And just today, shots have been fired at a marijuana-legalization rally in Denver.

There’s also been a lot of interesting commentary and stuff, including:

Charles King calls for patience in assessing the 4/15 bombing.
And this is exactly the kind of spectacularly stupid analysis we should avoid.
Charles Cameron’s been discussing the “End Times” videos that Tamerlan Tsarnaev apparently linked to… and without over-interpreting their significance.
Discussing “cognitive assemblages” at the ISA.
Daniel Little riffs on the micro-macro debate.
Martin Edwards on “pragmatic advising,” such as declining requests for letters of recommendation for PhD programs.
Adam Roberts has a new SF blog and Ken Macleod’s been busy.

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.