“Final List” of Award Nominees and Additional ISA Reception Details

2 January 2013, 1224 EST

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):

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:

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.

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.