Oh Noes!!!
- Tracking vaccine scares in Africa.
- Edward Hugh on Abenomics.
- Paul Krugman’s New York Review of Books essay on austerity features Mark Blyth’s Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (via).
- Some additional reflections on Kenneth Waltz and his ideas from Rajesh Rajagopalan, Robert Farley, and Michael Desch.
- Mark Kersten slams the ICC’s website.
- Kelly Strøm: “How Syria Ruined Marc Lynch’s Spring.”
- Tom Pepinsky considers the possibility of an “authoritarian data advantage.”
- Jay Ulfelder does TEDx.
- Footnoting Florida Polytechnic University’s explanation of why it won’t have tenure.
- Tom Nichols thinks that the Benghazi controversy is worth getting to the bottom of. I agree, but I’d be a lot more enthused about the effort if congress showed any indication of being an honest investigator.
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 duck of Minerva deflates at dusk.
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No worries – it’s just taking a nap! The duck will be in HK harbor till sometime in June. I’ll ask my girlfriend to document it’s actual demise when the time comes. https://twitter.com/hkharbourcity/status/334304192569151488/photo/1
You know, this actually does make me kind of sad. Which is weird and stupid.