One week left for nominations.  Please send us your nominations — you can email us a nomination directly or post in the Comments thread below. Here’s what we have so far for each category:
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
- Kevin Lee at Suffragio
- Xavier Marquez at Abandoned Footnotes
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 4 Things We Know About How Civil Wars End (And What This Tells Us About Syria)” by Barbara Walters at Political Violence at a Glance
-  “The Fine Line Between Critique and Bigotry When Evaluating Islam and Egypt” by Mira Sucharov, in Haaretz
- “What Threat from Mali’s Islamist groups?,”  by Bruce Whitehouse at Bridges from Bamako.
- “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:  Why Conflict Research Needs More African Americans (Maybe),”  by Christian Davenport at Political Violence at a Glance
- “Can China’s Action Plan to combat air pollution slow down new coal power development?” by Ailun Yang and Yiyun Cui at ChinaFAQS
- “Welcome to Mali,” by Gregory Mann at Africa is a Country.
- “Behind Mali’s Conflict,” by Bruce Whitehouse at Bridges from Bamako.
- “Some Thoughts on the Causes of Mass Protest,” by Jay Ulfelder at Dart-Throwing Chimp
- “Engines of Sacrality: Â A Footnote on Randall Collins’ Interaction Ritual Chains,” by Xavier Marquez at Abandoned Footnotes
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.
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Thanks for the nomination Jon! My last name is spelled “Marquez” rather than “Marques,” though. Thanks again!
No love for the Naval Diplomat? Sniff, Sniff.
Consider that a nomination.
I would like to nominate @Syricide for the best blog https://syricide.jux.com/ and best blog post https://syricide.jux.com/2012026 Essential to myth busting about the supposed chemical weapons attack in Ghouta and the quest for media traffic from it by disgraced MSM darlings Brown Moses Matt Van Dyke (and Dankaszeta)
I thought that I posted this earlier, but Nuclear Diner
Also, you can just make all nominees founded within the window eligible for best new blog.