- Saudia Arabia seeks water in Ethiopia with violent consequences. Via Laleh Khalili.
- “Morsi and the Deep State.”
- The case for the US continuing a hard line against Cuba.
- First-image explanations for US strategic failure.
- Walt’s “Top 5 parties in World History” should include instead the celebration of the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis rather than “The Fields of the Cloth of Gold.”
- On SFF books that authors “didn’t love.”
- Classicists and reception studies.
And also:
- How important is blogging for academia? Extremely important, say Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson.
- A petition to the White Houe aims to ban the construction of Death Stars.
- “World War I is the war of poetry and literature.”
- Andrew Yeo discusses a magisterial work of unparalleled brilliance — and not a few historical howlers.
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 FP blog sites seem to be having some technical difficulties at the moment — at any rate, I can’t access S. Walt. The other possibility is that this is their response to my having written them an admittedly rather unpleasant note a few days ago about their new sign-in policy — but though a bit nasty, b.c I was annoyed, it wasn’t unhinged or anything and I don’t think it would warrant this sort of individualized retaliation, assuming it’s even technically possible. (File under: The Internet and the construction of paranoia :))