International Studies Association Convention, 2008!

25 March 2008, 0130 EDT

As Duncan Black would say, “document the atrocities.”

My pick o’ the conference:

Hans J. Morgenthau and the Politics Among Nations – 60 Years Later
WA19 Wednesday 8:30 – 10:15 AM

Chair(s):
Michael Cox
London School of Economics

Roundtable Discussants:
Nicolas Guilhot
The Social Science Research Council

John Mearsheimer
University of Chicago

Michael C. Williams
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Nothing like a roundtable on realism to have the slim potential of actually producing heated arguments. And, let’s face, who wants to attend a panel unless there’s some (metaphorical) blood on the floor afterwards?

But for those who want to see what actual IR bloggers look like, there are a wealth offerings. I started to list them, but gave up.

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.