- Justice in Syria?
- The Maritime Labor Convention and the United States. This really isn’t a matter of the United States, per se, but the unrelenting hostility of the bulk of the Senate GOP caucus to multilateral treaties. Kupchan and Trubowitz remain, unfortunately, vindicated.
- Frank Beer discusses the past and present of NATO at e-International Relations.
- Peter Gleick argues that we are hitting “peak water” in the American West.
- An evolutionary-psychology debate involing PZ Myers. Via 3QD.
- US game developers critique their Japanese counterparts.
That’s all, folks. Time to take the kid for pancakes!
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.
For more on NATO vs coalitions of the willing, see me elsewhere https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2013/08/27/coalitions-are-not-so-convenient/