OAIS Awards: and the Winners are….

5 April 2013, 1256 EDT

I am currently at the ISA of Madness. Near the top of the list of insanity is the Blogging Reception, which included an overflow crowd and some great “spoken blog posts” by Erica Chenoweth, Rob Farley, Amanda Murdie, and Dan Drezner. I recorded the event, and whatever the camera caught before the battery gave out will be posted at some point in the near future. We also announced the winners of the awards….

In the “Best Blog Post” category, Amelia Hoover Green, Dara Kay Cohen, and Elisabeth Jean Wood received an honorable mention for “Is Wartime Rape Declining On a Global Scale? We Don’t Know — And It Doesn’t Matter” (Political Violence @ a Glance). First place, went John M. Hobson, “Eurocentrism, Racism: What’s in a Word?” (The Disorder of Things). John wasn’t there to receive his award, so we made fun of him.

In the “Most Promising New Blog” category, Suffragio received an honorable mention. The winner was Political Violence @ A Glance. Congrats to Erica Chenoweth and Barbara Walter!

In the “Best Blog (Individual)” category, Jay Ulfelder received the runner-up mention in a closely contested contest for his excellent blog, Dart-Throwing Chimp. But the winner surprised no one: Daniel Drezner for his eponymous blog.

In the “Best Blog (Group)” category we had a close three-way contest. The winner was The Disorder of Things, which has s many authors that I didn’t bother to name them.

Finally, we awarded the 2013 Special Achievement OAIS prize to a blogger who has made, in the judgment of the award committee, an outstanding contribution to the development, legitimation, and forwarding of international studies blogging. The winner was Marc Lynch, of Abu Aardvark’s Middle East Blog.

Congratulations to everyone and thanks to SAGE for making the reception possible. Apparently we’re doing this again next year. Perhaps with a larger room.

Dan Nexon

Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.

He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.

He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.