Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage

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by Dan Nexon

21 May 2013, 0911 EDT

Greetings all. PM and I are switching linkage duty.

Omar Ali looks at the 2013 Pakistani election at 3QD.
Tom Nichols argues against US ambiguity on Iran and North Korea.
Via Alana Tiemessen: international justice infographics from the Leitner Center (pdf).
North Korean piracy and maritime disputes in Northeast Asia.
Juan Cole on mounting sectarian violence in Iraq.
The nexus between authoritarian rule, collective action, and disaster response in China. For more on strategies of divide-and-rule in modern ~~empires~~ territorially expansive composite states, see King et al.
Tom Pepinsky’s “Notes on Long Form Research Blogging.” I was a little surprised to see Tom’s characterization of political-science scholar-blogs as “dissemination mechanism[s] for existing work.” I think a lot of us, as well as the bloggers that he links to as examples, use the medium to work out ideas via short-form pieces. My World Politics review essay came into existence at the Duck, as well as some book chapters I’ve done on empires and liberalism. Kindred makes the same point in comments at Tom’s place. Nonetheless, long-form research blogging is a different animal, and Tom has interesting things to say about his experience doing it.
Speaking of Kindred, here’s his take on Corey Robin’s attempt to connect Austrian economic thought to Nietzsche.

And also:

HiLowBrow serializes W.E.B. Dubois’ science-fiction story, “The Comet.”
Genre fiction, the long history of women in combat, and some other stuff.

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.