Friday Morning Linkage

26 October 2012, 0916 EDT

Rob Farley reminds us that not every dictator is the fault of US foreign policy.
Brad Delong says ‘less anniversary attention for the Cuban Missile Crisis, more for Stalingrad.’
Dan Murphy writes the (so far) definitive piece on the US politics of the Benghazi attack. Meanwhile, Leon Panetta explains the US military reaction to the attack.
Richard Weitz looks at whether Romney or Obama would be better for Asia.
At the National Interest, Michael Wesley discusses US policy “Asia’s new age of instability.”
Dnitry Gorenburg analyzes Russian air-force procurement plans.
Duck of Minerva contributor Megan H. MacKenzie argues for the integration of women into combat roles in the US military.
LFC on the “territorial peace.”

And also:

Adam Segal on the “Cyber Trade.”
Alex Motyl and Raj Menon discuss Yanukovych’s apparent grip on power in Ukraine.
Erik Voeten has a masterful post on the perils of using google data as a predictor of voting turnout.
Georgetown Professor Dan Brumberg and Georgetown PhD candidate Hesham Sallam will be presenting at a November 5, 2012 USIP conference on “The Challenge of Security Sector Reform in the Arab World.”
Adam Elkus makes a case for how to bring strategy back into international-relations theory.

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.