Morning Linkage

20 July 2012, 1505 EDT

Jennifer Lind argues that the recent scuttling of a Korean-Japanese security cooperation treaty stemmed from Seoul’s misgivings about a US-led balancing alliance aimed at the PRC.
Richard Jensen has a powerpoint analysis of wikipedia’s War of 1812 entry (via H-Diplo).
Jeffrey Lewis ask “do we need ICBMs?“
Ken Payne writes a second post on Chimpanzees and strategy (first one here).
Bernardo Teles Fazendeiro at e-ir on Uzbekistan’s suspension of its CSTO membership.
Noah Smith argues that “bad microfoundations are worse than none at all.” I can think of a number of people in the Duck’s intellectual orbit — such as Phil Arena, Patrick Jackson, and Colin Wight — who might have something of interest to say on this subject.
Tim Burke: “When preservation loses sight of the value of impermanence, ephemerality, and replacement, when it takes too seriously the grandiosity and overreach of both nation-making and modernity, it becomes a danger both to a richly human understanding of our actually lived past and a piecemeal assassin of the living and changing present, trying to make the material and informational world we inhabit into a stately mortuary. A measure of preservation, unafraid of necessary or pleasing reconstructions and annotations, is a very good thing, but it ought to be guided as much by whimsy and opportunity as by some comprehensive protocol.”

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.