Wednesday Morning Linkage

21 November 2012, 1002 EST

I got back from an extended trip to London last night. To all the people who hosted me for talks, entertained me, and generally made the trip both fun and productive: a big thanks!

I also bought some sweet rubber ducks at the British Museum.

I’m going to start repeatedly flogging the nomination process and voting registration for the academic international-studies blogging awards. You can reduce the annoyance factor by submitting nominations soonest possible. Note that just because you don’t register doesn’t mean that you won’t receive a ballot, but registration ensures that you will. I will post an updated list of nominations by next week. We want more in all categories, but the “best blog post” is very much lagging. Feel free to self-nominate and to nominate more than one entry for a single category.

Lots of stuff going on, but not enough time to provide links. In brief:

Rebel forces have taken Goma in the Congo in a move expected to have important national and regional repercussions.
The most recent Israel-Hamas truce proposal has fallen apart.
Matt Fay argues against drawing larger BMD implications from the “success” of Iron Dome.

And also:

BLTN: Eric Rauchway discusses the debate over the Morganthau plan for Germany. This would seem to be PTJ’s territory.
BLTN: the new PRC military high command.
The PLA and Jordan conduct joint military drills.
Michael Krepon ruminates in the unitary-rational actor assumption and deterrence theory.
Andrew Koppelman on “‘necessay’, ‘proper’, and health-care reform.“
Patrick Meier discusses the speedy verification of sources on twitter.

Image by (and copyright) William Kevin Petty.

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.