Tuesday on Lake Champlain
- In comments, Assaf Moghadam notes that his Studies in Conflict and Terrorism critique of Bob Pape’s work is free to download (PDF).
- In light of the 5 August 40-year anniversary of the LTBT, the National Security Archive notes its 2003 collection, “The Making of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1958-1963.”
- Erin Jenne compares and contrasts ethnic politics in Macedonia and Kosovo.
- Tom Murphy notes the prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in North Korea.
- Joshua Foust blasts The Guardian for continued problems in its coverage of the NSA-Snowden-panoptican affair.
- A.C. McKell: “International Relations as Historical Political Theory.”
And also:
- SEK laments the continued white maleness of the Doctor.
- Making the rounds: “40 maps [that] they didn’t teach you in high school.”
- Maybe he should have just shipped it?
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.
Apparently a black actor, Paterson Joseph, was offered the role as the Doctor but turned it down. So it seems it wasn’t for lack of trying, even if that trying was not very persistent (https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-08-06/doctor-who-writer-neil-gaiman-a-black-actor-has-already-turned-down-the-role-of-the-doctor )
Having read Foust’s long (recent) piece on the Snowden affair, it struck me as being mostly speculation and dodgy historical comparisons, or little more than ‘mendacious narrative-building’
Not that this excuses Greenwald or the Guardian