The nominations are trickling in, but there’s more work to be done. Â We had some major IR blogging events this year — Snowden, Egypt, Syria, Russia, etc…. Â and we’re looking for nominations for the best work out there in 2013. Â We’re still taking nominations through the end of the month. Â Sage is co-sponsoring the Awards and the Awards Reception at ISA in Toronto in March — here’s their press release.Â
Here’s what we have so far for each category — we don’t have a single nomination for best new IR blog and only a handful of nominations for best blog post.  Please send us your nominations — you can email us a nomination directly or post in the Comments thread below.
Best Blog (Individual)
- Deborah Brautigam at China in Africa
- Jay Ulfelder at Dart Throwing Chimp
- Kan Opalo at An Africanist Perspective
- Tom Pepinsky Blog
- Lawrence Haddad at Development Horizons
- Michael Levi, at Energy, Security and Climate at CFR
- Bruce Whitehouse at Bridges from Bamako
- Ari Kohen at Running Chicken
- Daniel Serwer at Peacefare.net
- Stephen Walt at Foreign Policy
- Gerard Toal at Critical Geopolitics
- Micah Zenko at Politics, Power and Preventive Action at CFR
- Patrick Meier at iRevolution
- Emmanuel Yujuico at IPE Zone
Best Blog (Group)
- Political Violence at a Glance
- The Disorder of Things
- The Monkey Cage
- Transitions
- Kings of War
- Participation, Power and Social Change
- Africa is a Country
- China FAQs
- Democracy Arsenal
- The Arabist
- Syria Comment
Best Blog Post
- “Growing Anger with Western Opinion” by Mariz Tadros at Open Democracy
-  “The Fine Line Between Critique and Bigotry When Evaluating Islam and Egypt” by Mira Sucharov, in Haaretz
- “Why Apologize?” by Brent Sasley in Mideast Matrix
- “History’s Seven Dumbest Self-Inflicted Political Disasters” by Philip Schrodt at asecondmouse
- “Going Feral! or “So long, and thanks for all the fish.” by Philip Schrodt at asecondmouse
- “‘Credibility’ is not everything, but it’s not nothing either,” by James Fearon at the Monkey Cage
- “Researching While Black: Â Why Conflict Research Needs More African Americans (Maybe),” at Political Violence at a Glance
Jon Western has spent the last fifteen years teaching IR in liberal arts colleges at Mount Holyoke College and the Five Colleges in western Massachusetts. He has an eclectic range of intellectual interests but often writes on international security, U.S. foreign policy, military intervention, and human rights. He occasionally shares his thoughts about professional life in liberal arts colleges. In his spare time he coaches middle school soccer, mentors the local high school robotics team, skis, and sails.
Thks for the list. Someone should verify this, but my impression from having glanced at IPE Zone once or twice is that it’s a blog w a single author not a group blog — hence it’s listed in the wrong category. (And is Syria Comment a group blog or a single-author one? I thought the latter but cd be wrong.)
Thanks for the correction — yes, IPEZone is an individual blog by Emmanual Yujuico. Syria Comment lists itself as coordinated by Joshua Landis but with multiple contributors.