Tiwesdæg: the Left-hand of Linkage

27 August 2013, 1001 EDT

Justice in Syria?
The Maritime Labor Convention and the United States. This really isn’t a matter of the United States, per se, but the unrelenting hostility of the bulk of the Senate GOP caucus to multilateral treaties. Kupchan and Trubowitz remain, unfortunately, vindicated.
Frank Beer discusses the past and present of NATO at e-International Relations.
Peter Gleick argues that we are hitting “peak water” in the American West.
An evolutionary-psychology debate involing PZ Myers. Via 3QD.
US game developers critique their Japanese counterparts.

That’s all, folks. Time to take the kid for pancakes!

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.