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International History and Politics Section Award Recipients

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Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award
Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics


Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award

The Robert L. Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award for the best book on International History and Politics. This award may be granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume. The award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented.

2023 Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University
Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East. Columbia University Press, 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention
Ayşe Zarakol, University of Cambridge
Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention
Jonathan Kirshner, Boston College
An Unwritten Future: Realism, Uncertainty, and World Politics. Princeton University Press, 2022.
2022 Jeff D. Colgan, Brown University
Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order, Oxford University Press, 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention
Sinja Graf, London School of Economics
The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 
2022 Honorable Mention
Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark, Georgia Tech University
All Options on the Table: Leaders, Preventive War, and Nuclear Proliferation, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 
2021 Kyle Lascurettes, Lewis and Clark College
Orders of Exclusion: Great Powers and the Strategic Sources of Foundational Rules in International Relations. Oxford University Press.
2021 Dov Levin, University of Hong Kong
Meddling at the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions. Oxford University Press.
2021 Honorable Mention
Lora Viola, Freie Universität Berlin
The Closure of the International System. Cambridge University Press.
2020 Ahmet Kuru, San Diego State University
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
2020

Jelena Subotić, Georgia State University
Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance After Communism. Cornell University Press, 2019.

2019

Arjun Chowdhury, University of British Columbia
The Myth of International Order: Why Weak States Persist and Alternatives to the State Fade Away. Oxford University Press, 2018.

2018   Catherine Lu, McGill University
Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
2017 Rosella Capella Zielinski, Boston University
How Nations Pay for War. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
2017 Honorable Mention
Debra Thompson, Northwestern University
The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

2014

Adria Lawrence, Yale University
Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2014 Honorable Mention
Jennifer Mitzen, Ohio State University
Power in Concert: The Nineteenth Century Origins of Global Governance. University of Chicago Press, 2013
2013 Ted Hopf, National University of Singapore
Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 (Oxford University Press 2012)
2013 Honorable Mention
Kristen Monroe, University of California, Irvine
Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice (Princeton University Press, 2012)
2012 Elizabeth Saunders, George Washington University
Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions (Cornell University Press, 2011)
2011 James Mahoney, Northwestern University
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective
2010  Patrick McDonald, University of Texas, Austin
The Invisible Hand of Peace: Capitalism, The War Machine, and International Relations Theory
2009 Richard Lebow, Dartmouth College
A Cultural Theory of International Relations (Cambridge University Press)
2009 Honorable Mention
George Gavrilis, University of Texas, Austin
The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries (Cambridge University Press)
2008 Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine
Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (Princeton University Press 2007)
2008 Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University
Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (Princeton University Press 2007)
2007 Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago
Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
2006 Victoria Tin-bor Hui, University of Notre Dame
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
2006 Honorable Mention
Daryl Press, University of Pennsylvania
Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Evaluate Military Threats (Cornell University Press, 2005)
2005 Jeffrey Taliaferro, Tufts University
Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (Cornell University Press, 2004).
2004 Richard Samuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders & Their Legacies in Italy & Japan (Cornell University Press, 2003)
2003 Neta Crawford, Brown University
Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
2003 Dorothy Jones
Toward a Just World: The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
2002 G. Ikenberry, Georgetown University
After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars
2001     Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University
Unarmed Forces: The Transnatinal Movement to End the Cold War

 


Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics

The Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics recognizes exceptional peer-reviewed journal articles representing the mission of the International History and Politics Section of the APSA, including innovative work that brings new light to events and processes in international politics, encourages interdisciplinary conversations between political scientists and historians, and advances historiographical methods.

2023 Scott F. Abramson, University of Rochester
“Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe.” American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2022), pp. 875-95.
2023  
David B. Carter, Washington University in St. Louis
“Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe.” American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2022), pp. 875-95.
2023  
Luwei Ying, University of California, Los Angeles
“Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe.” American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2022), pp. 875-95.
2023  
Honorable Mention
Kerry Goettlich, University of Reading
“The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies.” American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2022), pp. 911-26.
2022 Michael Ben Josef Hirsch, Suffolk University

"Conceptualizing and Assessing Norm Strength in International Relations," European Journal of International Relations 27 (2) 2021: 521-547.

2022 Jennifer M. Dixon, Villanova University
"Conceptualizing and Assessing Norm Strength in International Relations," European Journal of International Relations 27 (2) 2021: 521-547.
2021 Yasuhiro Izumikawa, Chuo University
"Network Connections and the Emergence of the Hub-and-Spokes Alliance System in East Asia." International Security, 2020, 45(2), 7-50.
2020 Sarah Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University
“Rogues, degenerates, and heroes: Disobedience as politics in military organizations.” European Journal of International Relations, February 2019.
2020

Eric Hundman, NYU Shanghai
“Rogues, degenerates, and heroes: Disobedience as politics in military organizations.” European Journal of International Relations, February 2019.

2019 Christopher Darnton, Naval Postgraduate School
“Archives and Inference: Documentary Evidence in Case Study Research and the Debate over U.S. Entry into World War II.” International Security 42(3): 84-126.
2018 Austin Long, RAND Corporation
“The MAD Who Wasn’t There: Soviet Reactions to the Late Cold War Nuclear Balance.” Security Studies 26(4): 606–641.
2018 Brendan Green, University of Cincinnati
“The MAD Who Wasn’t There: Soviet Reactions to the Late Cold War Nuclear Balance.” Security Studies 26(4): 606–641.
2017     Christopher Paik, New York University and Abu Dhabi
“The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development on Medieval Europe.” International Organization 70 (3): 551–86.

2017

Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University
“The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development on Medieval Europe.” International Organization 70 (3): 551–86.