Organized Section 7: Best Book Award

Conflict Processes Section Award Recipients

Best Book Award
Given every two years for the book making the most outstanding contributions to the study of any and all forms of political conflict, either within or between nation-states, published in the two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. Edited volumes and textbooks are not eligible for the award. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes section; self-nominations are encouraged. Nominations should be submitted to the committee chair, and a copy of the book should be sent to each member of the award committee.

2018	Sabrina Karim, Cornell University Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States. Oxford Univresity Press, 2017.
2018	Kyle Beardsley, Duke University Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States. Oxford Univresity Press, 2017.
2016	Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa. Cornell University Press, 2015
2014	Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH – Zurich Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2014	Kristian Gleditsch, University of Essex Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2014	Halvard Buhaug, Peace Research Institute Oslo Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War. Cambridge University Press, 2013
2012	Terrence Chapman, University of Texas, Austin Securing Approval: Domestic Politics and Multilateral Authorization for War (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
2010	Dan Reiter, Emory University How Wars End (Princeton University Press, 2009)
2008	Tanisha Fazal, Columbia University State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation (Princeton University Press, 2007)
2006	Andrew Kydd, University of Pennsylvania Trust and Mistrust in International Relations (Princeton University Press, 2005)
2004	Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Hoover Institution Co-Authored with Alastair Smith, New York University, Randolph M. Siverson, University of California at Davis, and James D. Morrow, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Logic of Political Survival (MIT Press, 2003)
2004	James Morrow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Co-Authored with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Hoover Institution, Alastair Smith, New York University, and Randolph M. Siverson, University of California at Davis, The Logic of Political Survival (MIT Press, 2003)
2004	Randolph Siverson, University of California, Davis Co-Authored with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Hoover Institution, Alastair Smith, New York University, and James D. Morrow, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Logic of Political Survival (MIT Press, 2003)
2004	Alastair Smith, New York University Co-Authored with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Hoover Institution, Randolph M. Siverson, University of California at Davis, and James D. Morrow, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Logic of Political Survival (MIT Press, 2003)
2002	Kelly Kadera, University of Iowa The Power-Conflict Story: A Dynamic Model of Interstate Rivalry (University of Michigan Press, 2001)
2000	Robert Powell, University of California-Berkeley In the Shadow of Power (Princeton University Press, 1999)
1997	Mark Lichbach, University of California-Riverside The Rebel's Dilemma (University of Michigan Press, 1995)
1996	T. Clifton Morgan, Rice University Untying the Knot of War: A Bargaining Theory of International Crises (University of Michigan Press, 1994)