Spent the morning recording a podcast. Except that we just chatted and never got around to the actual interview. Then it was off to job talks and child chauffeuring….
- Tom Z. Collina doesn’t like the idea of a BMD system for the US east coast.
- Dan Drezner says that China is involved in a security dilemma with ASEAN. I’m not so sure: it looks to me like Beijing is being expansionist and that’s provoking its neighbors.
- Noorjahan Akbar reports on civil-society building in Afghanistan.
- Australia will abstain on the Palestine recognition vote at the UN.
- Robert McMillan and Spencer Ackerman discuss the ongoing “cyberwar” between Israel and Hamas.
- David S. Meyer reflects on the role of nudity in political protest.
- P O’Neil on interwar public debt in the UK and France… and GDP growth.
- SF Signal on the re-release of Morcock’s Nomads of the Time Stream series.
- More unsound anti-gay parenting analysis from the usual suspects.
And:
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.
The article on Australia’s UN PA vote got it exactly right:
“This may be a largely symbolic vote of dubious value to Palestine, but at least some of Israel’s friends are starting to question whether supporting Israel always means doing what Netanyahu wants.”
Not only Australia’s vote, but also the EU split, are a big deal in this regards.