Daniel Nexon

Daniel Nexon is an associate 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, won the 2010 International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association Book Award. Nexon has received several prestigious fellowships and awards. In 2009-2010 Nexon received an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. 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.

He is the current editor-in-chief of International Studies Quarterly.

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. 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. Their papers, part of a theoretical school described as Constructivism, has led them both to be placed on lists of notable constructivists.

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