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by Dan Nexon

8 November 2012, 0943 EST

When time is short, attribution of links is the first casualty.

  • Walter Russel Mead sees evidence of the “Anglosphere effect” in Australian, Canadian, and Indian relations. This reminds me that I am very much looking forward to reading Srdjan Vucetic’s The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations.
  • The Kremlin fires its Defense Minister. Dmitry Gorenburg provides context at the Russian Military Reform blog.
  • Bloomberg News reports on Hu Jintao’s opening address at the Party Congress.
  •  Laia Balcells and Stathis Kalyvas: “Does Warfare Matter? Severity, Duration, and Outcomes in Civil Wars” (PDF).

And also:

  • Hume’s Bastard: “Beware of Made in China Realist Fantasies.” Nice post, but brought back memories of David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo series — a case study in how to take a great idea (Qin-style Chinese global conquest) and ruin it. Some people claim the new “retelling” is better. Maybe.

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.

1 Comment

  1. Hume's Bastard
    Hume's Bastard on 8 November 2012 at 16.15 EST

    Thanks for the pingback. Coming from IR – dare I call you “peers” – and from a website I admire, it’s an honor to me.