Early Afternoon Linkage

28 July 2012, 1629 EDT

Syrian forces are massing in preparation for possible ground assault in Aleppo. Goldberg at the UN Dispatch argues that “‘Aleppo’ may soon become shorthand for mass atrocity in the 21st century'”
Philip Coyle at the National Interest provides evidence that US missile defense systems don’t actually work. The attitude in the Pentagon is precisely the opposite.
Jennifer Earl on how technological change facilitates not just political repression by states, but by private actors as well. If I were less pressed for time, I’d probably note that this sort of thing has broad implications for naïve libertarianism.
Kris Alexander at Danger Room: Syria does not have Iraq’s chemical weapons.
Craig Scanlan discusses continuing upheaval in the North Korean power structure.
Wilson Chau on PLA-N land-attack cruise missile tests.
Bill Black: “The Right’s Schadenfreude as Their Austerity Policies Devastate Europe” at naked capitalism.
Plagiarism Today reports on the 5th Annual Plagiarism Conference.

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.