Morning Linkage

by Dan Nexon

24 July 2012, 1354 EDT

Globalization of Law:

Honduras looking into limited outsourcing of criminal justice to Britain (via).
David Weigel draws from Cliff’s Global Right Wing in an article on the NRA’s quest to globalize gun rights (via Dan Drezner).

Economic Armageddon, Round II:

If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening in Europe, you should be.

Education:

Chris Lehmann at Practical Theory: “there are a lot of powerful folks right now who are advocating for a pedagogy that they do not want for their own children. Some of these powerful people are running networks of schools that have a pedagogical approach that is directly counter to the educational approach they pay for for their own children. Moreover, these same powerful people tend to get upset when asked about the disconnect, saying that that question is off limits.”
On a similar note, Daniel Luzer argues that online education shouldn’t be thought of as a straight substitute for the in-class experience.

Nerd Stuff:

This is from months ago, but worth reading nonetheless. Daniel Abraham, who is half of the pseudonymous author of the Expanse series and writes epics fantasy under his own name, argues that epic fantasy doesn’t need to be “realistic” about class, gender, and all that. My issue, which I should probably write about sometime, is with the coherence of the socio-economic systems common in the genre.
It is too bad that Charli’s out of commission, because I’m sure she’d be all over Joseph Young’s piece on the Armageddon Factor and drone warfare.

Middle East:

Everyone’s talking, including Obama, about Syrian chemical-weapons threats. Also lack of CIA assets in Syria — but remember, stories like these are ways of publicly airing fights within the national-security bureaucracy.

Asia:

An analysis of Indonesia’s focus on maintaining ASEAN cohesion (PDF) (via Evan A. Laksama).

Strategery:

Adam Elkus, riffing on David Kilcullen, suggests that urbanization and world cities will change the operational and strategic landscape. It was news to me that there is a NIC Global Trends 2030 blog. But before you go visit, be prepared for some serious ugly.

Climate:

David Schuler reminds us what the trends on Chinese carbon emission look like, and argues that the US and Europe basically outsourced pollution to the PRC.

Rugged Individualism:

Jon Scalzi’s post on being a “self-made man” is making the rounds, and for good reason.

Sally Ride:

NPR blog coverage is rich with links and discussion. Erik Loomis summarizes the impact of DOMA on Ride’s partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy.

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.