Foreign Policy Section Award Recipients
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Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Best Paper Award
Best Book Award
Distinguished Scholar Award
Foreign Policy Section Graduate Student Travel Grant
Best Annual Conference Discussant Award
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Panel chairs from any division are invited to nominate outstanding graduate student papers presented at the APSA annual meeting that are relevant to the study of foreign policy. Nominations should be sent to the Foreign Policy Section Chair.
| 2025 | Andrew Kenealy, Duke University “The Voice of Congress on War and Diplomacy.” |
| 2025 | Sowon Park, University of Virginia “The Structure of Foreign Policy Preferences in the U.S. Congress.” |
| 2024 | Yuji Idomoto, University of Southern California “How Much Does China’s Rise Matter? A Cross Regional Analysis of Threat Level.” |
| 2023 | Charmaine Willis, University of Albany, SUNY “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Resistance to the US Military in the Philippines” |
| 2021 | Rachel Myrick, Stanford University “Do External Threats Unite or Divide?” Presented at the 2019 APSA Annual Meeting |
| 2021 | Honorable Mention |
| 2019 | Maryum Alam, University of Indiana |
| 2016 | Mark Bell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “What Do Nuclear Weapons Offer States? A Theory of State Foreign Policy Response to Nuclear Acquisition.” |
| 2016 | Lina Benabdallah, University of Florida “Emerging Powers as Socializers: Examining Norm Diffusion and Knowledge Production in China’s Security Strategy.” |
| 2014 | Chin-Hao Huang, University of Southern California Status, Security, and Socialization: Conditions for China’s Cautious Compliance in International Security Institutions. |
Best Paper Award
The Best Paper on foreign policy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
| 2025 | Tyler Jost, Brown University Joshua David Kertzer, Harvard University Robert Schub, Rutgers University Eric Min, University of California, Los Angeles “How Hawks Win: Dispositions and Advisory Influence in Foreign Policy Decision-Making.” |
| 2025 | Runner Up Patrick Hulme, University of Florida “War and Responsibility.” |
| 2024 | Rikio Inouye, Princeton University “Preserve, Pressure, Protect, and Peel: The US-China Rivalry and the Politics of Vaccine Provision” |
| 2023 | Amaan Charaniya, Washington University in St. Louis “How Foreign Policy Crisis Shapes Public Opinion on Social Media” |
| 2023 | Rex Weiye Deng, Washington University in St. Louis “How Foreign Policy Crisis Shapes Public Opinion on Social Media” |
| 2023 | Dahjin Kim, Washington University in St. Louis “How Foreign Policy Crisis Shapes Public Opinion on Social Media” |
| 2023 | William Nomikos, Washington University in St. Louis “How Foreign Policy Crisis Shapes Public Opinion on Social Media” |
| 2023 | Gechun Lin, Washington University in St. Louis “How Foreign Policy Crisis Shapes Public Opinion on Social Media” |
| 2023 | Ipek Ece Sener, Washington University in St. Louis “How Foreign Policy Crisis Shapes Public Opinion on Social Media” |
| 2021 | Kathleen Powers, Dartmouth College “The Puzzle of Coercion Failure: How Psychology Explains Resistance to Threats.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting. |
| 2021 | Dan Altman, Georgia State University “The Puzzle of Coercion Failure: How Psychology Explains Resistance to Threats.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting. |
| 2019 | Shannon Carcelli, University of Maryland |
| 2017 | Joshua Kertzer, Harvard University “Tying Hands, Sinking Costs, and Leader Attributes.” |
| 2017 | Jonathan Renshon, University of Wisconsin “Tying Hands, Sinking Costs, and Leader Attributes.” |
| 2017 | Karen Yarhi-Milo, Princeton University “Tying Hands, Sinking Costs, and Leader Attributes.” |
| 2016 | Danielle Lupton, Colgate University “Military Experience and Congressional Oversight of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” |
| 2015 | Alexandra Guisinger, University of Notre Dame “Mapping the Boundaries of Elite Cues: How Elites Shape Mass Opinion Across International Issues.” |
| 2015 | Elizabeth N. Saunders, George Washington University “Mapping the Boundaries of Elite Cues: How Elites Shape Mass Opinion Across International Issues.” |
| 2014 | Aila Matanock, University of California, Berkeley “Shared Sovereignty in State-Building: Explaining “Invited Interventions.” |
| 2007 | Mark Haas, Duquesne University “Neo-classical Realism and the Importance of Ideological Consensus in International Relations” |
| 2006 | Lori Gronich, Georgetown University “The Cognitive Miser Theory of Decision Making and U.S. Responses to Nuclear Threats and Terrorist Attacks” |
| 2005 | George Shambaugh, Georgetown University “Public Prudence and its Support for Counter-Terrorism Initiatives” |
| 2005 | William Josiger, Georgetown University “Public Prudence and its Support for Counter-Terrorism Initiatives” |
| 2003 | Richard Eichenberg, Tufts University “Gender Difference and the Use of Force in the United States, 1990-2002” |
| 2001 | Amy Searight, Northwestern University “Of Rose Gardens and Fishbowls: Electoral Incentives and U.S.-Japan Economic Bargaining, 1966-1998” |
| 2001 | Christopher Way, Cornell University “Of Rose Gardens and Fishbowls: Electoral Incentives and U.S.-Japan Economic Bargaining, 1966-1998” |
| 1999 | Richard Sinnott, University College Dublin “Knowledge and the Position of Attitudes to a European Foreign and Security Policy on the Real-to-Random Continuum” |
| 1998 | Miriam Elman, Arizona State University “Unpacking Democracy: Presidentialism, Parliamentarianism, and the Democratic Peace Theory” |
| 1998 | Richard Herrmann, Ohio State University “Mass Public Decisions on Going to War: A Cognitive-Interactionist Framework” |
| 1998 | Philip Tetlock, Ohio State University “Mass Public Decisions on Going to War: A Cognitive-Interactionist Framework” |
| 1998 | Penny Visser, Ohio State University “Mass Public Decisions on Going to War: A Cognitive-Interactionist Framework” |
Best Book Award
This Award is in recognition of outstanding scholarly monographs related to foreign policy, broadly conceptualized. All methodologies and approaches to the subject are welcome.
| 2025 | Miles M. Evers, University of Connecticut Eric Grynaviski, George Washington University The Price of Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2024. |
| 2025 | Honorable Mention Elizabeth Saunders, Columbia University The Insiders’ Game. Princeton University Press, 2024. |
| 2025 | Honorable Mention Erin Lin, Ohio State University When the Bombs Stopped. Princeton University Press, 2024. |
| 2024 | Rochelle Terman, University of Chicago The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works—and When It Backfires. Princeton University Press, 2023. |
| 2023 | Tizoc Chavez, Colby College The Diplomatic Presidency: American Foreign Policy from FDR to George H.W. Bush. University Press of Kansas, 2022. |
| 2023 | Sarah Bush, University of Pennsylvania; Lauren Prather, University of California – San Diego Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections. Cambridge University Press, 2022. |
| 2022 | Jacqueline L. Hazelton, Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare. Cornell University Press, 2021. |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Melissa M. Lee, University of Pennsylvania Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State. Cornell University Press, 2020. |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Stephen Wertheim, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace & Yale Law School Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy. Harvard University Press, 2020. |
| 2021 | Brian Rathbun, University of Southern California |
| 2021 | Honorable Mention Reputation for Resolve: How Leaders Signal Determination in International Politics. Cornell University Press, 2020 |
| 2021 | Honorable Mention Sebastian Schmidt, Johns Hopkins University Armed Guests: Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing. Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| 2019 | Keren Yarhi-Milo, Princeton University |
| 2019 | Eric Grynaviski, George Washington University |
| 2017 | Jennifer Erickson, Boston College Dangerous Trade: Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation. Columbia University Press, 2015. |
| 2017 | Honorable Mention Sarah Bush, Temple University The Taming of Democracy Assistance. Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
| 2017 | Honorable Mention Ronald Krebs, University of Minnesota Narrative and the Making of US National Security. Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
Distinguished Scholar Award
Recognizes a history of distinguished scholarship in the field of foreign policy.
| 2016 | Robert Jervis, Columbia University |
Foreign Policy Section Graduate Student Travel Grant
| 2025 | Emily Chen, University of Tokyo Muhammed Topcu, Georgia State University Rachel Yu, University of California, San Diego Jinwon Lee, University of Illinois |
| 2024 | Mahesh Acharya, University of Mississippi Zara Albright, Boston University Xunchao Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison Oren Samet, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2023 | Jenny Barker, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2023 | Marcelo Leal: University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 2023 | Weifang Xu, Florida State University |
| 2023 | Emirhan Ozkan, Rutgers University |
| 2022 | Gechun Lin, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2022 | Hoshik Nam, University of Iowa |
| 2022 | Charmaine Willis, University at Albany, State University of New York |
| 2022 | Rex Weiye Deng, Washington University in St. Louis |
Best Annual Conference Discussant Award
This award recognizes an outstanding discussant who served at previous year’s Annual Convention for providing high-quality feedback to papers presented on a panel sponsored by the APSA Foreign Policy section.
| 2025 | Guan Wang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| 2025 | Jordan Tama, American University |