• The above video includes Sean Kay speaking about US-European relations and international security.
• Kelsey Davenport: “How to Read the North Korean Nuclear Missile Threat.”
• Scott Harold and Lowell Schwartz: “A Russia-China Alliance Brewing?” More Sino-Russian cooperation on alcohol production would be awesome!
• The National Security Archive has a nice roundup of their materials concerning discussions between Thatcher and Gorbachev. Spoiler: the ‘no German unification’ agreement seems to have failed.

And also:

• Holy !!#~@#! Has it really been two months since I put up an interview at New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy? I have two to process and more scheduled. So be sure to check out the site in coming weeks. On that note, I’ve been getting a lot of emails about the lack of new podcasts at the Duck. As many of you know, things have been very busy. We’ll try to restart them soon.

Dan Nexon

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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.

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