Quick Notes on Awards

12 January 2013, 1430 EST

We’re still getting ballot requests. They tend to come in waves. Indeed, the last one all came from individuals at the same university. Hmmm.

Anyway, if you’ve asked for a ballot and still haven’t gotten an email with instructions, let us know. All the information that you need about the nominees and procedures is now centralized at the 2013 OAIS Awards page.

Note that we ask voters to choose three (3) finalists for the Best Blog category, six (6) for the Best Individual Blog category, four (4) for the Most Promising New Blog, and five (5) for Best Post.

This means that, even if you have registered to vote for your friend’s blog, you really should take the time to read through the nominees so that you can make an informed decision about how to rank them. That’s why we created such a long window.

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.