Hi, Ducks! Happy New Year! I’m back after a semester wandering across northern India. Did you miss me? Well, here are your links anyway…
- Professor Ole Wæver argues for “open science to fight big threats.”
- Senator Bernie Sanders has asked the NSA a simple question that may finally make a difference. (Okay, probably not.)
- This year will mark the 100th anniversary of World War I. The New Yorker’s archive has an excellent review of recent historical interpretations of the causes and consequences of that great cataclysm. It is worth a read.
- The Broadsword blog notes that global defense spending has fallen. The decline is linked in part to the implementation of the US Budget Control Act in 2013.
- Farha Ghannam, who wrote the excellent book Remaking the Modern, has a blog post at Jadaliyya on “The Promise of the Wall: Reflections on Desire and Gated Communities in Cairo.”
- Hollywood has made a film about Ibn Sina. (Please don’t let it suck.)
- Finally, Fabrizio Foschini at the AAN blog provides a social history of the pakol, a rolled-up hat worn by leaders from Alexander the Great to the Lion of Panjshir to Osama bin Laden.
(Thanks to Megan and Adrienne for managing the Monday Morning Links while I was away.)
Vikash is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. His main areas of academic interest are (post-) globalization, economic development, and economic freedom, with a regional focus on South Asia
“(Please don’t let it suck.)”
Oh it’sgonna suck, I guess it’s just a matter of how much
True.
I was wondering just the other day about your absence — welcome back.
Thanks. It’s great to be back.