The deadline for nominations and voter registration is fast approaching. The list of nominees is unchanged since my last update. You should feel free to add nominations there, to email us, or in he comments section below. Please do check the eligibility criteria.
The two most common ineligible nominees are (1) restrictions on Duck of Minerva pieces and permanent contributors and (2) online articles that don’t qualify as blogs, such as Foreign Affairs snapshots. Unfortunately, this double-disqualifies Charli’s excellent “Game of Thrones as Theory“–which, after being named “best of the web” for Foreign Affairs pieces in 2012, has catapulted back into its “most read.”
You can register to vote by emailing us with your coordinates. I’ve mentioned before that registration guarantees you a right to a ballot, but that we will also be drawing up a list of people who will receive one regardless. Still, I’m seeing some signs of registration with the aim of supporting specific nominees, so if you care enough about the outcome to answer a five-minute survey, I would recommend that you go ahead and register.
I’ve reproduced the nominees below the fold. Don’t forget to check out my awards-related interview with SAGE.
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):
- Abandoned Footnotes (Xavier Marquez)
- Abu Aardvark’s Middle East Blog (Marc Lynch)
- Chris Blattman
- Dart-Throwing Chimp (Jay Ulfelder)
- Daniel Drezner
- For the Desk Drawer
- 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
- For the Desk Drawer
- Grand Blog Tarkin
- 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)
- Ahmed Badawi, “The Dark Side of Revolution” (Postcard from Egypt)
- 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)
- Amelia Hoover Green, Dara Kay Cohen, and Elisabeth Jean Wood, “Is Wartime Rape Declining On a Global Scale? We Don’t Know — And It Doesn’t Matter” (Political Violence @ a Glance)*
- 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)
- Xavier Marquez, “Ten Thousand Melodies Cannot Express Our Boundless Hot Love For You: The Cult of Personality in Mao’s China” (Abandoned Footnotes)
- Adam David Morton, “El Infierno: The War on Drugs in Mexico” (For the Desk Drawer)
- 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)
- Erik Voeten, “What Good is a UN Human Rights Treaty?” (The Monkey Cage)
Nomination for Best Blog Post:
Ahmed Badawi, “The Dark Side of Revolution” (Postcard from Egypt)
https://www.transform-egypt.blogspot.com/2012/01/dark-side-of-revolution-thugs-on-demand.html