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International Security Section Award Recipients

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Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award
Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award for Public Service
Best International Security Article
Best Book from a Non-Tenured Faculty Member Award

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award
Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award is awarded to a successfully defended doctoral dissertation on any aspect of security studies, which has been submitted in final, library copy in previous calendar year. The committee welcomes nominations for dissertations employing any approach (historical, quantitative, theoretical, policy analysis, etc.) to any topic in the field of security studies. Manuscripts are judged according to (1) originality in substance and approach; (2) significance for scholarly or policy debate; (3) rigor in approach and analysis; and (4) power of expression.

2022	Sanne Cornelia J. Verschuren, Brown University "Imagining the Unimaginable: War, Weapons, and Procurement Politics," 2021.
2022	Honorable Mention Nicholas Anderson, Yale University "Inadvertent Expansion in World Politics"
2021	Renanah Miles Joyce, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University “Exporting Might and Right: Great Power Security Assistance and Developing Militaries.” 2020.
2020	Madison Schramm, Georgetown University “Making Meaning And Making Monsters: Democracies, Personalist Regimes And International Conflict”
2019	Jennifer Spindel, University of Minnesota "Beyond Military Power: The Symbolic Politics Of Conventional Weapons Transfers.”
2019	Honorable Mention Ketian Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Calculating Bully: Explaining Chinese Coercion.”
2018	Eric Min, Stanford University "Negotiation in War."
2017	Mark Bell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy."
2017	Honorable Mention Peter White, University of Maryland, College Park "Crises and Crisis Generations: International Conflict and Military Participation on Politics."
2016	Daniel Krcmaric, Duke University "The Justice Dilemma: International Criminal Accountability, Mass Atrocities, and Civil Conflict.”
2016	Honorable Mention Carrie Lee, Stanford University “The Politics of Military Operations.”
2014	Joshua Kertzer, Ohio State University "Resolve in International Politics," The Ohio State University
2013	Kyle Lascurettes, University of Virginia "Orders of Exclusion: The Strategic Sources of Order in International Relations."
2012	Kathryn Cochran, Duke University "Strong Horse or Paper Tiger? Assessing the Reputational Effects of War Fighting."
2011	Paul Staniland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Explaining Cohesion, Fragmentation and Control in Insurgent Groups."
2009	Vaidya Gundlupet, University of Chicago "Big Sticks and Contested Carrots: A Power-Centric Theory of International Security."

Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award for Public Service
The Joseph J.Kruzel Memorial Award for Distinguished Public Service is awarded to a scholar with a distinguished career in national security affairs both as an academic and a public servant. It is given to memorialize Joseph Kruzel, a security studies scholar and Department of Defense policy official who was killed while on a diplomatic mission to Bosnia.

2022	Robert Jervis, Columbia University
2021	Susan Shirk, University of California, San Diego
2018	Bruce Jentlson, Duke University
2011	Andrew Marshall, Net Assessment, Department of Defense
2010	Stephen Krasner, Stanford University
2008	Brent Scowcroft, The Scowcroft Group
2007	Catherine Kelleher, Brown University
1997	Joseph Nye Jr., Harvard University

Best International Security Article
Catherine McArdle Kelleher Award for Best International Security Article

2022	Elizabeth Grasmeder, Duke University “Leaning on Legionnaires: Why Modern States Recruit Foreign Soldiers,” International Security, Summer 2021
2021	Daniel Altman, Georgia State University “The Evolution of Territorial Conquest After 1945 and the Limits of the Territorial Integrity Norm.” International Organization, 74(3), 2020: 490- 522.
2021	Annette Idler, University of Oxford “The Logic of Illicit Flows In Armed Conflict Explaining Variation in Violent Nonstate Group Interactions in Colombia.” World Politics, 72(3), July 2020: 335-376.
2020	Eric Hundman, NYU Shanghai "Rogues, degenerates, and heroes: Disobedience as politics in military organizations." European Journal of International Relations 25.3 (2019): 645-671.
2020	Sarah Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University "Rogues, degenerates, and heroes: Disobedience as politics in military organizations." European Journal of International Relations 25.3 (2019): 645-671.
2020	Andrew Coe, Vanderbilt University "Why Arms Control Is So Rare." American Political Science Review 114.2 (2020): 342-355.
2020	Jane Vaynman, Temple University "Why Arms Control Is So Rare." American Political Science Review 114.2 (2020): 342-355.
2019	Michael Beckley, Tufts University "The Power of Nations: Measuring What Matters." International Security 43(2): 7-44.
2019	Honorable Mention Allison Carnegie, Columbia University “The Spotlight's Harsh Glare: Rethinking Publicity and International Order.” International Organization 72(3): 627-657.
2019	Honorable Mention Austin Carson, University of Chicago “The Spotlight's Harsh Glare: Rethinking Publicity and International Order.” International Organization 72(3): 627-657.
2018	Keir A. Leiber, Georgetown University "The New Era of Counterforce: Technological Change and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence." International Security 41(4): 9-49. 2017.
2018	Daryl G. Press, Dartmouth University "The New Era of Counterforce: Technological Change and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence." International Security 41(4): 9-49. 2017.

Best Book from a Non-Tenured Faculty Member Award
The Robert Jervis Best International Security Book by a Non-tenured Faculty Member

2022	Omar Shahabuddin McDoom, London School of Economics The Path to Genocide in Rwanda, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
2021	Barbara Elias, Bowdoin College Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
2020	Oriana Skylar Mastro, Georgetown University The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.
2019	Robin Marwica, European University Institute Emotional Choices. Oxford University Press, 2018.
2019	Honorable Mention Lindsay O’Rourke, Boston College Covert Regime Change. Cornell University Press, 2018.