Wednesday Morning Linkage

by Daniel Nexon on 2013-01-30 in Duck- 2 Comments

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• Anyone have good recommendations for following developments in Iraq? Yeah, remember Iraq? I hear things aren’t exactly ice-cream and puppies there.
• Dan Brumberg and Steve Heydemann have a new Wilson Center report: “Global Authoritarians and the Arab Spring: New Challenges for U.S. Diplomacy.”
• The Russian MOD looks to return to defense-industry autarky. I wonder if there are any implications for the claim that the globalization of defense production accounts for the end of the Cold War?
• Video of the PRC’s AMB system test.
• “China and Central Asia in 2013” at Jamestown’s China Brief.
• Jonathan Lima-Matthews on the continuing tensions over the Falklands.

And also:

• Justin Cash on Islamic finance.
• Mark Safranski asks about the “nature of the Muslim Brotherhood” and worries that the Obama Administration doesn’t have enough expertise on the subject. I’m sure some Duck readers could help him out.
• Erik Loomis takes southerner-bashing liberals to the woodshed.
• More political scientists debating Zero Dark Thirty.
• Nominate your favorite IR theory book of 2012 for the Sussex International Theory Award!
• Israeli fantasy.
• Even the addition of uptempo rock music can’t make cabbage slicing exciting. How woulda thunk?
• Jedi cats?More like Sith Lords!

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