Heading back east

11 August 2006, 1343 EDT

The movers are here. My internet connection is scheduled to cut out any time now.

I’ve had a great time at OSU. The Mershon Center is a wonderful institution, with terrific academics and staff. They’ve built an exciting intellectual climate. Thanks to everyone for having me out and for making my stay so interesting and productive.

If you are looking for post-doctoral fellowships in international studies, then you should definitely apply to Mershon.

The bad news is that my book manuscript isn’t quite done. I’ve still got some line-edit style revisions to complete. But that’s also the good news: the book manuscript is very close to submission to publishers.

Other than that, I can say that I’m heading back to Georgetown with a few more publications and forthcoming publications under my belt–something I’ll have more to say about when I get around to some shameless self-promotion.

Despite all the great things about the Mershon Center, I’m definitely looking forward to getting back home and teaching again at Georgetown.

Consider all of this an explanation for why you may not be seeing much in the way of posting from me over the next few days.

PS: if you’re ever in Columbus you should try a hole-in-the-wall restaurant called “Indochine.” It’s on Hamilton between Broad and Main. The owners are welcoming and the food is spectacular.

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.