This constitutes our promised post containing the “final list” of OAIS Award Nominees. This is also your last chance to let us know if we’ve left off an eligible nomination.

We will send out a ballot soon. The current plan is to use a Borda-count process to create a list of finalists and to proceed to a second round to determine the winners in each category. We welcome feedback on that procedure.

A reminder: we will announce winners at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA). The award ceremony will take place during the first-ever International Studies Blogging reception–which will take place on Thursday April 4th from 7.30-8.30pm. The reception, which is sponsored by SAGE, will feature 4-5 minute “spoken blogpost” presentations. The current lineup includes Erica Chenoweth, Dan Drezner, Rob Farley, Marc Lynch, and Steve Walt. We hope that ISA participants will join us, and note that the OAIS awards are in no way, shape, or form affiliated with the ISA.

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)
• The Multilateralist (David Bosco)

Nominees for Most Promising New Blog:

• Circuit: International Relations and Information Technology
• For the Desk Drawer
• Grand Blog Tarkin
• International Trade Examiner
• Nuclear Diner
• Ottomans and Zionists
• Peacefare.net
• Political Violence @ A Glance
• PONARS Policy Blog
• The Smoke-Filled Room
• Suffragio

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)

If you have registered to vote, or expect that we’ll send you a ballot anyway, this would be a good time to start looking over these lists. Registration is officially closed, but we’ll do our best to get a ballot to you if you email us.