- The Chinese debate over the collapse of the Soviet Union (via Rob Farley)
- The new labour movement in Jordan (via Laleh Khalili)
- Syrian rebels parade captured “Iranian drones” on YouTube.
- Ian Hall argues that the US enjoys preponderance, but not primacy, in Asia, and that this matters a great deal for US-Sino relations.
- Taylor Favrel links to his working paper on “The United States in the South China Sea Dispute” (PDF).
- David Schorr eviscerates Henry Nau’s critique of Obama foreign policy in National Review Online. There are a lot of things wrong with Obama foreign policy, and Nau’s an accomplished scholar and practitioner. That’s why it is so disappointing to see him construct his attacks on the insubstantial foundation of the Republican foreign-policy id.
- Phil Arena takes on the “static preferences” criticism of expected-utility theory.
- Peter Henne explains why we should all love H.P. Lovecraft.
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.
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