Monday Morning Stuff: Foreign-Policy Debate Edition

22 October 2012, 0921 EDT

Dan Drezner is very unhappy about the outline for tonight’s foreign-policy debate. If he’s got the list of sections right, I’ll be pretty outraged as well. So I guess we’ll just talk the drinking game.

My suggestions: take a swig of your favorite beverage whenever you hear: “resolve,” “apologize,” “values,” “economy.” “credibility,” “unravelling,” “strength,” “exceptionalism,” “that’s just not true,” “energy independence,”and “kill.”

David Shorr preps us for the pain and suffering. Morton Abramowitz tackles “American Exceptionalism,” which seems relevant.

More Linkage below the fold:

Africa’s maritime strategy.
Jeffrey Lewis discusses “banning nuclear-armed ABMs.”
Glen Hastedt forecasts the foreign policy of a Romney administration.
Jay has a longish post on forecasting and accuracy.
Matt Zwolinksi flags an upcoming webcast on commodification.
Debora Weber-Wulf explains how to identify plagiarism in doctoral dissertations. In Germany this is apparently the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.

I’m listening to the new Mountain Goats and A.C. Newman albums. The latter is a huge improvement over Get Guilty.

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.