Nominees for Best Blog (Group):
- Abu Muqawama
- Arms Control Wonk
- Crooked Timber
- The Disorder of Things
- IPE at UNC
- Mideast Matrix
- Kings of War
Nominees for Best Blog (Individual):
- Abu Aardvark’s Middle East Blog (Marc Lynch)
- Chris Blattman
- Dart-Throwing Chimp (Jay Ulfelder)
- Daniel Drezner
- International Political Economy Zone (Emmanuel Yujuico)
- iRevolution (Patrick Meier)
- M. Taylor Favrel
- Ottomans and Zionists (Michael Koplow)
- Phil Arena’s Blog
- Running Chicken (Ari Kohen)
- Saideman’s Semi-Spew (Steve Saideman)
- Steve Walt
- Slouching Toward Columbia (Daniel Trombly)
- Texas in Africa (Laura Seay)
Nominees for Most Promising New Blog:
- Circuit: International Relations and Information Technology
- International Trade Examiner
- Nuclear Diner
- Peacefare.net
- Political Violence @ A Glance
- PONARS Policy Blog
- The Smoke-Filled Room
Nominees for Best Blog Post:
- Phil Arena, “Measuring Military Capabilities” (Phil Arena’s Blog)
- LFC, “Book Review: Winning the War on War” (Howl at Pluto)
- Robert Farley, “American Airpower = Smart Power?” (The Diplomat)
- Nils Gilman, “Plutocratic Insurgency” (Small Precautions)
- Ben Kamis, “How to Catch a Battletroll: States and the Yarns they Tell about the Internet, from the Minnows to the Whoppers” (Sicherheitspolitik-Blog)
- John M. Hobson “Eurocentrism, Racism: What’s in a Word?” (The Disorder of Things)
- Brent E. Sasley, “The Passions of Erdogan” (Huffington Post)
- Mira Sucharov, “Israel should listen to Shimon Peres – and look in the mirror” (The Fifth Question, Haaretz)
These are great nominations, and I’m no longer concerned about numbers. I do think that there’s more quality out there and I hope to see more nominations from our readers. Regional and area-studies blogs that fit our criteria remain underrepresented, although the Middle East less so. I will reiterate that blogs can be nominated in more than one category.
You may add nominations in the comments section or email them. If you want to guarantee yourself a right to vote, also let me know. Procedures here.
Many thanks to whomever nominated my Battletrolls post. And not to be a pedantic ingrate, but it’s ‘Kamis’ and ‘Sicherheitspolitik-Blog’ (letter o, not zero).
Fixed!