- Irena L. Sargsyan warns of renewed conflict between Kurdish-Arab conflict.
- Matthew Kocher writes a post centered around Jeffrey A. Friedman’s working paper on “breakthrough problems” (PDF).
- Daniel Little ruminates on “mobilizing the masses” and the Chinese Revolution.
- Paul Dibbs argues against a grand accommodation with China (via Andrew Phillips).
- Robin Banerji & Patrick Jackson (of the BBC) write about China’s “Ghost Towns and Phantom Malls.”
- Dean Dad says “don’t get a PhD in the humanities!”
- Andrew Liptak on Hugo Gernsback, the “father of science fiction.”
- Cosmopolis’s message? Contemporary fiction is bust (via Paul McAuley).
- In the “better late than never linkage” department: Spencer Ackerman profiles the analyst whose report on right-wing extremism led to a storm of protest…. protest that looks even dumber now than it did at the time.
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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