Monday Morning Linkage

27 August 2012, 1340 EDT

Heather Hurlburt parses the RNC foreign-policy platform: “Politico found what seems to be a close-to-final draft on the RNC’s website. The national security section, titled “American Exceptionalism” is here. Below I have gone through and blogged some of the more mendacious and ridiculous content. But what’s the short take: the Middle East, Israel and Iran sections are more reasonable than an observer of recent rhetoric from the Romney camp might expect. The adults — who know they might have to govern, and that better policy options are exceedingly hard to come by — are firmly in charge.” Hmmm. Maybe PTJ and I were right to talk about American Exceptionalism in last Friday’s podcast.
Team Romney intensifies multivocal signaling (“dog whistle” politics) on race.
Sean Langberg advocates securitizing climate change.
Daniel Little calls for a micro-sociology of technical knowledge.
Evert Cilliers asks why Americans ignore the failings of British [expletive deleted].

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.