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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 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.

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
Naima Green-Riley, Harvard University
“How Perilous are Paper Fans? Public Diplomacy through Confucius Classrooms and Implications for Chinese Influence.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.

2019

Maryum Alam, University of Indiana
“State Sponsorship as a Two-Level Game.” 

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.

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
“Bureaucracy at the Border.” 

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.

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
Reasoning of State: Realists, Romantics, and Rationality in International Relations. Cambridge University Press, 2019

2021  

Honorable Mention
Danielle Lupton, Colgate University

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
Who Fights for Reputation. Princeton University Press, 2018.

2019

Eric Grynaviski, George Washington University
America’s Middlemen. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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

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