For the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted during that year or the previous year in the field of international relations, law and politics.
| Year |
Author |
Dissertation |
Submitted by |
| 1966 |
William Zimmerman |
Soviet Perspectives in the International System, 1956-1964 |
Columbia University |
| 1967 |
|
No award given |
| 1968 |
Perry Smith |
Wartime Planning for Postwar Contingencies: The Army Air Force Example, 1943-1956 |
Columbia University |
| 1969 |
|
No award given |
| 1970 |
Francis Seth Singleton |
The African States and the Congo Affair, 1960-65 |
Yale University |
| 1971 |
|
No award given |
| 1972 |
Stuart A. Bremer |
National and International Systems: A Computer Analysis |
Michigan State University |
| 1973 |
Richard Smoke |
Toward the Control of Escalation: An Historical Analysis |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1974 |
Peter J. Katzenstein |
Disjointed Partners: Austria and Germany Since 1815 |
Harvard University |
| 1975 |
|
No award given |
| 1976 |
|
No award given |
| 1977 |
Jack Steven Levy |
Military Power, Alliances, and Technology: An Analysis of Some Structural Determinants of International War Among the Great Powers |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 1978 |
Thomas J. Biersteker |
Multinational Investments in Underdeveloped Countries: An Evaluation of Contending Perspectives |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1979 |
Stephen Michael Meyer |
Probing the Causes of Nuclear Proliferation |
University of Michigan |
| 1980 |
James P. Bennett |
Perpetuating Failure: Security Practices and System Transformation of Southern Pacific Transnational Politics 1830-1905 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1981 |
Margaret Scranton |
Changing U.S. Foreign Policy: Negotiating New Panama Canal Treaties, 1958-1978 |
University of Pittsburgh |
| 1982 |
Timothy Lomperis |
A Conceptual Framework for Deriving the 'Lessons of History': The U.S. Involvement in Viet Nam (1960-1975) as a Case Study |
Duke University |
| 1983 |
Deborah Larson |
Belief and Inference: The Origins of American Leaders' Cold War Ideology |
Stanford University |
| 1984 |
Scott Sagan |
Deterrence and Decision: An Historical Critique of Modern Deterrence Theory |
Harvard University |
| 1985 |
Wayne A. Edisis |
The Hidden Agenda: Negotiations for the Generalized System of Preferences |
Brandeis University |
| 1986 |
Michael Mastanduno |
Between Economics and National Security: The Western Politics of East-West Trade |
Princeton University |
| 1987 |
Douglas J. Macdonald |
Adventures in Chaos: Reformism in American Foreign Policy |
Columbia University |
| 1988 |
Aaron L. Friedberg |
Change, Assessment and Adaptation: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905 |
Harvard University |
| 1989 |
Yossi Shain |
In Search of Loyalty and Recognition: The Political Activities of Exiles |
Yale University |
| 1990 |
Steven Weber |
Cooperation and Discord in Security Relationships: Toward a Theory of U.S.-Soviet Arms Control |
Stanford University |
| 1991 |
Debora L. Spar |
Iron Hands: The Internal Sources of International Cooperation |
Harvard University |
| 1992 |
Beth A. Simmons |
Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years |
Harvard University |
| 1993 |
James D. Fearon |
Threats to Use Force: Costly Signals and Bargaining in International Crises |
University of California, Berkeley |
| 1994 |
Jonathan Kirschner |
International Monetary Relations: The Question of Power |
Princeton University |
|
Randall Warren Stone |
Pursuit of Interest: The Politics of Subsidized Trade in the Soviet Bloc |
Harvard University |
| 1995 |
Walter Mattli |
The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond |
University of Chicago |
| 1996 |
Katherine Barbieri |
Economic Interdependence and Militarized Interstate Conflict |
SUNY Binghamton |
| 1997 |
Kenneth Schultz |
Domestic Political Competition and Bargaining in International Crisis |
Stanford University |
| 1998 |
Michael J. Hiscox |
The Trade Ware at Home: Fact, Mobility, International Trade, and Political Coalitions in Democracies |
Harvard University |
| 1999 |
Janice Bially |
The Power Politics of Identity |
Yale University |
| 2000 |
Kristian S. Gleditsch |
Peace Has Its Victories, No Less Renowned Than War |
University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 2001 |
Jon C. Pevehouse |
Democracy from Above? Regional Organizations and Democratization |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2002 |
Tanisha Fazal |
Born to Lose and Doomed to Survive: State Death and Survival in the International System |
Stanford University |
| 2003 |
Stephen G. Brooks |
The Globalization of Production and International Security |
Yale University |
| 2004 |
Helen M. Kinsella |
The Image Before the Weapon: A Genealogy of the 'Civilian' in International Law and Politics |
University of Minnesota |
2005
|
Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton
|
Globalizing Human Rights? How International Trade Agreements Shape Government Repression
|
Nuffield College, Oxford University
|
| 2006 |
Alexander B. Downes |
Targeting Civilians in Wartime |
University of Chicago |