With less than a month left to nominate awards and guarantee voting rights, here’s where we stand:
Nominees for Best Blog (Group):
Nominees for Best Blog (Individual):
- Abu Aardvark’s Middle East Blog (Marc Lynch)
- Chris Blattman
- Dart-Throwing Chimp (Jay Ulfelder)
- International Political Economy Zone (Emmanuel Yujuico)
- iRevolution (Patrick Meier)
- M. Taylor Favrel
- Phil Arena’s Blog
- Running Chicken (Ari Kohen)
- Saideman’s Semi-Spew (Steve Saideman)
- 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)
- 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, but it seems to me that our readers are making it too easy on the current nominees.
First, there’s a lot more quality out there than this; regional and area-studies blogs that fit our criteria remain underrepresented. Second, I’m puzzled that some blogs that fit multiple categories aren’t getting cross-nominations.
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.
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.
I’d like to nominate Stephen Walt’s blog on fp.com and Daniel Drezner’s blog on fp.com.
I would like to nominate “Tread the Middle Path” – https://treadthemiddlepath.blogspot.in
I’d nominate:
Ottomans and Zionists, by Michael Koplow: ottomansandzionists.com
Open Zion at the Daily Beast, edited by Peter Beinart: https://www.thedailybeast.com/openzion.html
Mideast Matrix, by Brent Sasley: https://mideastmatrix.wordpress.com/
Zach: would you say a bit more about eligibility issues? Peter Beinart’s blog strikes me as a a bit iffy given the criteria laid out.