Guest Posts, Guest Blogging, and Link Trolling

25 July 2012, 1430 EDT

As might (or might not) be clear from recent activity, we’re getting an increasing number of requests for guest postings, guest blogging, and links.

I’ll put up a permanent “policies” pages soonish, but for now:

Yes, we love love love guest posts. However, we are biased toward academics, academics in training, and cognate types. Just send one of us a nice email and we’ll see if we can make something happen.
We are extremely flattered when we get out-of-the-blue requests from people who want to guest post, but the procedure for bringing on guest bloggers is one of those “salami factory“things… and strangers just aren’t very likely to make it through the process.
We’ll blog stuff if (1) it falls within the extremely broad understanding that we have of our mandate, (2) it seems interesting, (3) the aim isn’t to flog some strictly commercial project, and (4) we remember to do it. That last one often proves a more difficult hurdle than responsible people would expect.

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.