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 . [6] 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. [7] Their papers,part of a theoretical school described as constructivism,have led them both to be placed on lists of notable constructivists. [8] [9] [10]
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. [11] [12]
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. [13] [14] 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." [15] 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. [16] [17]
In 2020,he co-wrote Exit From Hegemony:The Unraveling of the American Global Order with Alexander Cooley. [18] [19] [20]
Nexon also founded and helps maintain The Duck of Minerva,an academic international-relations weblog. [21]
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