Happy New Year to all our readers! With so much conflict and suffering in many parts of the year, let us hope that 2024 brings peace and comfort to the huge numbers in need of them.
The turmoil the world is in is reflected in what was read on the blog in 2023. Below is a list of the 20 posts that were most viewed in 2023 by you, our readers. All of the top 10 most read posts (indeed the top 11) relate to the armed conflicts in Israel/Gaza and in Ukraine.
The 15th anniversary of the establishment of this blog was in vnpay database December of 2023. It is pleasing to be going strong after all of this time. At the time when the blog started, the EJIL Board wrote (as reflected in this early post, and now on the About EJIL:Talk! Page) that:
“we hope [the blog] does not provoke just short off the cuff academic gossipmentary, but short, incisive, even well-researched pieces which should simply be thought of as a different genre of writing, not unlike the difference between an article and a book.”
I think it would be fair to say that this hope has been fulfilled. Our aim was to establish a scholarly blog, and as things have turned out posts on this blog are regularly cited in books, articles and other scholarly works. They are also referred to in judicial decisions and used by policy makers. We are grateful to all those who regularly submit their pieces to us for consideration for publication. The volume of submissions has grown so much that we now need four editors as well as three associate editors to handle that traffic. We usually try to stick to having just one post each week day but at several points this year we have published more than one post a day. However, even with that increased publication rate, we receive far more submissions that we can publish.