- The current issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology has a special issue on trade and travel. In it, sociologists apply network analysis in domains familiar to international-relations scholars. I haven’t read the articles yet, but I thought the cross-disciplinary dimension was interesting enough to ask SAGE to make the contents available. You can download them through July.
- I’m about halfway through Aliette de Bodard‘s Obsidian and Blood trilogy, and am enjoying it immensely. If the concept of Tenochtitlan Noir Fantasy isn’t enough to interest you, then I’m not sure why you’re reading the Duck of Minerva.
- Paul Mullin’s post on “Performing Fan Culture” is a bit over a week old, but that’s no reason not to check it out.
And also:
- Steve Coll’s review of The Dispensable Nation in the New York Review of Books (via).
- Nour Youssef examines how anti-Mori sources view pro-Morsi demonstrators.
- Edward Hugh on the Czech economy.
- What’s the deal with China’s membership on the Arctic Council?
- Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Caitlin Talmadge assess the future of the US-Japanese alliance.
- Joshua Foust: Snowden and the “Geek Awakening.”
But the Aztec duck… if you dare.
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.
Have you read Thomas Harlan’s series where the Aztecs and Japanese defeated everyone and spread out into space? It’s quite good. Here’s the first book: https://www.amazon.com/Wasteland-Flint-Thomas-Harlan/dp/076530192X/ref=pd_sim_b_2
I haven’t. Thanks for the suggestion!