Some Quick Notes

22 January 2022, 1428 EST

Happy belated New Year! After a rather chaotic December – and lots of work on the backend of this site – we’re getting ready to kickstart happenings here at the Duck.

We’ve got a few posts and a symposium – all of which really should’ve been posted a while back – coming soon. You may already have seen that Adam has created a new “interviews” feature, and posted the first part of one he did with PTJ. I’m looking forward to seeing how that turns out.

I’ve also changed the way that I access the main Duck of Minerva email account. In the process I’ve discovered that I’ve missed a lot of correspondence. So if you’ve emailed us and haven’t heard back by now, please follow up.

Many of you know that the Duck isn’t the only place that I haven’t been posting lately. I’ve also been inactive at Lawyers, Guns and Money (yes, the lack of a serial comma in the title pains me as well).

Over yonder, Robert Farley’s started up a generation-x nostalgia podcast series called “An Oral History of the Blogosphere.” So far its featured some really big names from the rise and decline of the political blogosphere (roughly 2001-2008), such as Matt Yglesias, Amanda Marcotte, Daniel Drezner, and Tedra Osell (Bitch, PhD).

Check it out.

More soon-ish.

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.