Wednesday Morning Linkage

29 August 2012, 1324 EDT

Josh Rogin examines how the Romney campaign has “doubled down” on treating Russia as a geopolitical foe. Some ideological habits are hard to break. In this case, the US-Moscow relationship is fraught enough to render the position wrongheaded but not completely insane.
Jay on long-term democratization pressures in Russia.
Noah Smith evaluates the nature of China’s economic “landing.”
Jeff Colgan thinks highly of the SEC ruling that multinational petroleum firms will have to disclose their payments to foreign governments.
Mark Leon Goldberg annotates the GOP platform’s section on the United Nations.
Will Romney’s Asia-Pacific policy exacerbate regional tensions?
Tim Burke is teaching a class called “Bad Research and Informational Heresies.”
If Sony made the iPhone.
Will some kind of #virtualapsa2012 happen? There are indicators that a proof of concept is coming. If you had a panel and are interested, contact me.
Tensions over Svalbard increase. The Duck used to provide comprehensive coverage of geopolitical threats in and around Svalbard. It may be time to restart that occasional series.

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.