Jacob Christensen

Foreign Policy notes Denmark’s presence in Afghanistan.

Executive summary: In relation to the size of the population in the relevant age, Denmark has the largest military presence in Afghanistan but has also suffered the heaviest losses.

Save one late hand-in and a couple of completions, I’ve just finished marking the reports from my final course. And that is the end of a teaching career which began in 1992. I ought to do a post about these almost sixteen years divided between four academic institutions in two countries at some point in the not-too-distant future.

Now I only have one final academic assignment left – writing a 7000-word survey of Danish political history since 1960.

After the shenanigans of Jeppe Kofod (and especially the completely chaotic handling of the case by the Social Democrats) and Ilka Kanerva’s raunchy text messages, the Irish come to our rescue and brings us a good old-fashioned money-based scandal. And the resignation of the PM.

Alfa males are a fascinating breed.

• Guardian: This is the end – a German photographer captures the dying
  (tags: art philosophy photography)
• Economist: The poverty trap – Free exchange
  (tags: economics economy inequality poverty psychology)

And yet more procrastination: NATO invites you to identify the member countries, the partnership countries and the Mediterranean Dialogue countries.

Believe me: Those Central Asian Ex-Soviet republics are a bit of a match.

Hat tip Foreign Policy.