Saturday Morning Linkage

1 September 2012, 1518 EDT

Luke Perez’s #virtualAPSA2012 page now has more presentations. Check it out.
In a backlash of sorts, people are having fun taking about #oldtimeAPSA on twitter.
The China declinisms debate: Minxin Pei writes that the US needs to adjust to a declining PRC, while Daniel Larsen argues that Washington would run roughshod over Beijing in such a scenario.
Chinese reporter “embarrasses” Victoria Nuland over the legal status of disputed islands in the East China Sea (via Taylor Fravel).
Andrew Exum writes his final piece at Abu Muqawama before taking up his International Affairs Fellowship — a very thoughtful rumination on “Social Media and the Policy Researcher.”
Georgetown University students and the unpaid internship (via Daniel Solomon).
Jeffrey Lewis analyzes an Aeroflot advertisement that is supposedly getting a lot of attention on the intertubes.
Emily Chertoff: “A Eulogy for a Sex Radical: Shulamith Firestone’s Forgotten Feminism” (via 3QD).
Pat Thompson: “is writing a book chapter a waste of time” for academics?
Another member of the German elite loses his PhD over plagiarism.
A new paper explains “How the cucumber tendril coils and overwinds” (via David Glass).
BLTN: Noah Smith slaps Niall Ferguson around.

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.