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Note on Podcast No. 16

Minerva Cast • Podcasting

by Dan Nexon

14 12 2012

I recorded an interview with Rob Farley yesterday on academic blogging and the academic blogsphere. I had planned to put it up this evening but, like, I suspect, a lot of Americans, I’ve been a bit distracted for the last few hours.

The upshot is that I haven’t completed post-production and the podcast will likely not be available until tomorrow.

I know it won’t be long before we get into some kind of discussion about the Atlantic community’s relative indifference to deaths outside of its borders. For now, let’s just leave it at this: certain facts of media coverage, the cognitive basis of empathy, and so forth make variegated emotional responses inevitable. The underlying morality of those differential responses is certainly worth discussing… but I don’t particularly feel like doing so at this moment.

In sum, I’m calling it a work day and picking up my daughter from aftercare.

All the best.

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.

2 Comments
  1. Tim Smith
    Tim Smith on 14 December 2012 at 17.22 EST

    No, the United States never does.

    • Dan Nexon
      Dan Nexon on 14 December 2012 at 20.12 EST

      The US is a pretty big place.