Berkley Center

Daniel Nexon is an associate professor in the Department of Government (jointly appointed to the Walsh School of Foreign Service) at Georgetown University, where he specializes in the comparative-historical analysis of international politics, international relations theory, and international security. His current research tackles questions of statecraft and the instruments of power politics. He previously taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. During 2009 to 2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (2009) and has also published articles in the American Political Science Review, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Dialogue IO, the Review of International Studies, and the Review of International Political Economy. Nexon received a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.