{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2022}} {{COI|date=October 2019}}{{short description|American political scientist}} {{Infobox academic | birth_date = {{birth date|1973|04|07}} | death_date = | discipline = Political science | education = {{Plain list| * Harvard University (BA) * {{nowrap|Columbia University (MA, MPhil, PhD)}} }} | image = | workplaces = Georgetown University | children = | influences = | doctoral_students = | spouse = }} '''Daniel H. Nexon''' (born April 7, 1973) is an American political scientist currently serving as a professor in the School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His first book, ''The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change'',<ref>{{cite book|title=The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change|first=Daniel H.|last=Nexon|location=Princeton, NJ|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=April 20, 2009|isbn=9780691137933}}</ref> won the 2010 International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association Book Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=IISS Book Awards|access-date=September 21, 2012|url=http://www.isanet.org/awards-grants/award-recipients.html#isssbook|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208080713/http://www.isanet.org/awards-grants/award-recipients.html#isssbook|archive-date=February 8, 2013}}.</ref> Nexon has received several prestigious fellowships and awards. In 2009 and 2010 Nexon received an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Daniel H. Nexon. International Affairs Fellow|access-date=September 21, 2012|url=http://www.cfr.org/experts/world/daniel-h-nexon/b14490|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709233606/https://www.cfr.org/experts/world/daniel-h-nexon/b14490|archive-date=July 9, 2011}}</ref> He served his fellowship in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) in the Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia regional office. In 2012, the Social Science Research Council recognized Nexon as an important "new voice" in international affairs.<ref>{{cite web|first=Jack|last=Donnelly|title=New Voices: Dan Nexon|access-date=September 21, 2012|url=http://www.ssrc.org/features/pages/new-voices/6614/7473/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130111213006/http://www.ssrc.org/features/pages/new-voices/6614/7473/|archive-date=January 11, 2013}}</ref>
He was the editor-in-chief of ''International Studies Quarterly'' from 2014 to 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Editorial Board|url=https://academic.oup.com/isq/pages/Editorial_Board|access-date=July 27, 2020|website=Oxford Academic|language=en}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Nexon grew up in Washington, DC, and attended the Georgetown Day School. While in high school, he participated in policy debate and was a nationally ranked competitor. His senior year, he and his debate partner, Rebecca Tushnet, reached the finals of the Tournament of Champions. Nexon then attended Harvard University, where he briefly debated and also wrote for the ''Harvard International Review''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dan Nexon Articles|website=Harvard International Review|access-date=September 25, 2012|url=http://hir.harvard.edu/article-authors/dan-nexon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429080610/http://hir.harvard.edu/article-authors/dan-nexon|archive-date=April 29, 2014}}</ref> He graduated with a B.A. in 1995.
Nexon began a Ph.D. program in political science at Columbia University in 1995. He received his M.A. and M.Phil. before graduating with a Ph.D. in 2004. While in graduate school, he began collaborating on a series of papers with Patrick Jackson exploring the role of ideas in international politics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Patrick Jackson {{!}} International Relations Online|url=https://ironline.american.edu/student-experience/featured-faculty/all-faculty/profile/patrick-jackson/|access-date=February 24, 2022|website=AU-MIR|language=en-US|archive-date=February 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224002152/https://ironline.american.edu/student-experience/featured-faculty/all-faculty/profile/patrick-jackson/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Their papers, part of a theoretical school described as constructivism, have led them both to be placed on lists of notable constructivists.<ref>{{cite journal|first2=Daniel H.|last2=Nexon|first1=Patrick T.|last1=Jackson|title=Constructivist Realism or Realist-Constructivism?|journal=International Studies Review|volume=6|issue=2|date=June 2004|pages=337–341|doi=10.1111/j.1521-9488.2004.419_2.x}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first2=Daniel H.|last2=Nexon|first1=Patrick T.|last1=Jackson|title=Whence Causal Mechanisms? A Comment on Legro|journal=Dialogue IO|volume=1|issue=1|date=Spring 2002|pages=81–101|doi=10.1017/S7777777702000079|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first2=Daniel H.|last2=Nexon|first1=Patrick T.|last1=Jackson|title=Relations before States: Substance, Process, and the Study of World Politics|journal=European Journal of International Relations|volume=5|issue=3|date=September 1999|doi=10.1177/1354066199005003002|s2cid=145359449}}</ref>
==Academic career==
Nexon is primarily known for two areas of his research. First, Nexon is one of the most preeminent experts on the relationship between religion and international politics. His first book, ''The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change'' explores the way the Protestant Reformation affected religious networks and polities in Europe.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=DANIEL H. NEXON. The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2009. Pp. xv, 354. $29.95 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-lookup/doi/10.1086/ahr.115.2.600-a |journal=The American Historical Review |date=2010-04-01 |issn=0002-8762 |pages=600–601 |volume=115 |issue=2 |doi=10.1086/ahr.115.2.600-a |language=en |first=J. |last=Dewald|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Daniel H. Nexon, The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires and International Change , Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2009; xv + 354 pp.; 9780691137927, $60.00/£52.00 (hbk); 9780691137933, $29.95/£20.95 (pbk)|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0265691411417598z|journal=European History Quarterly|date=2011|issn=0265-6914|pages=712–714|volume=41|issue=4|doi=10.1177/0265691411417598z|language=en|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
Second, Nexon also engages in research designed to link together the study of international politics with important elements of western culture such as Harry Potter. Nexon has been quoted in newspapers, magazines, and television for his collaborative studies on the intersection between the Harry Potter series and international affairs.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Brian|last=Bethune|title=Will Harry die?|magazine=Maclean's|date=July 9, 2007|access-date=September 27, 2012|url=http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070709_107109_107109&page=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726223535/http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070709_107109_107109|archive-date=July 26, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=David L.|last=Miller|title=Harry Potter and Magical Realism|website=CBS News Opinion|date=September 22, 2009|access-date=September 27, 2012|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-potter-and-magical-realism/}}</ref> In the 2007 ''Time'' story on woman of the year J.K. Rowling, Nexon stated that "for people articulating concerns about globalization in their cultural setting. It's incredibly significant that Potter even enters these debates."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Nancy|last=Gibbs|title=Person of the Year 2007: Runner Up: J.K. Rowling|magazine=Time|date=December 19, 2007|access-date=September 27, 2012|url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1690753_1695388_1695436,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930013126/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1690753_1695388_1695436,00.html|archive-date=September 30, 2012}}</ref> Nexon co-edited a volume titled ''Harry Potter and International Relations'', published in 2006, that applies international relations theorizing to the world of Harry Potter and the politics of Harry Potter in general.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Harry Potter in a Globalizing and Localizing World: Harry Potter in a Globalizing and Localizing World|url=https://academic.oup.com/isr/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2007.00734.x|journal=International Studies Review|date=2007-12-10|pages=718–720|volume=9|issue=4|doi=10.1111/j.1468-2486.2007.00734.x|language=en|first=Robert L.|last=Pfaltzgraff|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Daniel H. Nexon – Iver B. Neumann (eds.): Harry Potter and International Relations.|url=https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/545|journal=Czech Journal of International Relations|date=2007-12-01|issn=2788-2993|pages=83–88|volume=42|issue=4|doi=10.32422/cjir.545|first=Lukáš|last=Hoder|doi-access=free}}</ref>
In 2020, he co-wrote ''Exit From Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order'' with Alexander Cooley.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Exit From Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2020-04-14/exit-hegemony-unraveling-american-global-order|work=Foreign Affairs|date=2020-04-14|access-date=2026-01-30|issn=0015-7120|volume=99|issue=3|language=en-US|first=G. John|last=Ikenberry}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|title=Review of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48655669|journal=Insight Turkey|date=2022|issn=1302-177X|pages=279–281|volume=24|issue=1|first=Özgür|last=Öztürk}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Power Down|url=https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2020/11/power-down/|website=Literary Review of Canada|date=2020-10-14|access-date=2026-01-30|language=en-US|first=Caroline|last=Noël}}</ref>
Nexon also founded and helps maintain ''The Duck of Minerva'', an academic international-relations weblog.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com/p/about.html |title=The Duck of Minerva: About |publisher=Duckofminerva.blogspot.com |accessdate=September 28, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717074144/http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com/p/about.html |archivedate=July 17, 2012 }}</ref>
==Books== * ''Exit From Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order''. (2020). * {{cite book|title=The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change|first=Daniel H.|last=Nexon|location=Princeton, NJ|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=April 20, 2009|isbn=9780691137933}} * {{cite book|title=Harry Potter and International Relations|editor-first1=Daniel H.|editor-last1=Nexon|editor-first2=Iver B.|editor-last2=Neumann|location=Lanham, Maryland|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|date=May 2006|isbn=978-0-7425-3959-4}}
==Journal articles== * "Hegemonic-order theory: A field-theoretic account". (co-authored with Iver Neumann). ''European Journal of International Relations'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Nexon|first1=Daniel H.|last2=Neumann|first2=Iver B.|date=July 4, 2017|title=Hegemonic-order theory: A field-theoretic account|journal=European Journal of International Relations|volume=24|issue=3|language=en|pages=662–686|doi=10.1177/1354066117716524|issn=1354-0661|hdl=11250/2480540|s2cid=149193754|hdl-access=free}}</ref> * "Paradigmatic Faults in International Relations Theory". (co-authored with Patrick Thaddeus Jackson). ''International Studies Quarterly'' 53.4 (2009) * "The Balance of Power in the Balance". ''World Politics'' 61.2 (April 2009), p 330 - 359. * "What's This, Then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'?". ''International Studies Perspectives'' 9.3 (2008) * "What's at Stake in the American Empire Debate". (co-authored with Thomas Wright). ''American Political Science Review'' 101.2 (2007) * "Paradigm Lost? Structural Realism and Structural Functionalism". (co-authored with Stacie E. Goddard). ''European Journal of International Relations'' 10.1 (2005) * "Zeitgeist? Neo-idealism and International Political Change". ''Review of International Political Economy'' 12.4 (2005) * "Constructivist Realism or Realist-Constructivism?". (co-authored with Patrick Thaddeus Jackson). ''International Studies Review'' 2.6 (2004) * "Which Historical Sociology?". ''Review of International Studies'' 27.2 (2001) * [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=149073 "Whence Causal Mechanisms? A Comment on Legro"]. (co-authored with Patrick Thaddeus Jackson). ''Dialogue IO'' 1.1 (2001) * "Relations before States: Substance, Process, and the Study of World Politics". (co-authored with Patrick Thaddeus Jackson). ''European Journal of International Relations'' 5.3 (1999)
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