Saturday Morning Linkage

22 September 2012, 1413 EDT

Mass protests against militias in Benghazi demonstrate the power of mobilization-triggers and the weakness of movements that lack proper infrastructure.
Marc Lynch analyzes Newsweek’s #muslimrage debacle.
Chris Zambellis writes at Jamestown’s China Daily Brief that Cairo is looking to China to provide it was exit options — and hence increased leverage — in US-Egypt relations; Prashanth Parameswaran reports on Sino-Malaysian relations; IPE Zone discusses Sino-Ukrainian trade relations.
Julian Ku at Opinio Juris argues that the US is likely obligated to defend the Senkaku Islands.
Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism: “Europe’s Economy Sinks from Sight.”

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.