Casy Hogle reports on a World Peace Foundation panel on public-advocacy campaigns, which featured the Laura Sey and Amanda Taub.- Edward Hugh on the decline of Portugal.
- The costs of the “eating local” movement: agriculture in the “global south.”
- Daniel Martin Varisco: “life without honor.”
- Adam Eluks: “a rack city on a hill: unsolicited advice to landpower and seapower.”
And also:
- The Disorder of Things has a new forum on “critical methodological and narrative developments in IR.”
- Andrew Liptak discusses John Campbell, Astounding magazine, and the “golden age” of science fiction.
- This is my academic life.
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.
Glanced through just now Adam Elkus’s “rack city on a hill”, linked here. (The ‘rack city’ thing is a rap reference — I can’t be bothered to read the lyrics right now.) What I want to note is a line at the end where he says “massive [U.S.] retrenchment is sure to have major disruptive effects on the intl system” or words to that effect. Note the wording is sure to have — as if this were some kind of natural, physical law. As in “drop a rock from a height, and it’s sure to gain acceleration as it falls” or whatever. (I’m not a scientist, obviously, so substitute something else if that doesn’t work.)
LFC, I’m paraphrasing Winekoff’s post to that effect. Take it up with him. Not that “disruptive” in this term is not entirely negative, but simply effect-based.