Hi, Ducks! Happy New Year! Â I’m back after a semester wandering across northern India. Â Did you miss me? Â 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. Â The New Yorker’s archive has an excellent review of recent historical interpretations of the causes and consequences of that great cataclysm. Â It is worth a read.
- The Broadsword blog notes that global defense spending has fallen. Â 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. Â (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
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“(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.