Winners – Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics
2025
Winner: Şener Aktürk, ‘Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe‘, International Security, vol. 48, no. 4 (2024), pp. 87-136.
Honorable Mention: Onur Ulaş İnce, ‘From ‘Chinese Colonist’ to ‘Yellow Peril’: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire‘, American Political Science Review, vol. 118, no. 4: 1748–62
2024
Naosuke Mukoyama, ‘The Eastern cousins of European sovereign states? The development of linear borders in early modern Japan,‘ European Journal of International Relations, vol. 29, no. 2 (2023), pp. 255-282.
2023
Winner: Scott F. Abramson, David B. Carter, and Luwei Ying, “Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe,” American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2022), pp. 875-95.
Honorable Mention: Kerry Goettlich, “The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies,” American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2022), pp. 911-26.
2022
Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch and Jennifer M. Dixon, “Conceptualizing and assessing norm strength in International Relations,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 27, No. 2 (June 2021), pp. 521–547.
2021
Yasuhiro Izumikawa, “Network Connections and the Emergence of the Hub-and-Spokes Alliance System in East Asia,” International Security, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Fall 2020), pp. 7-50.
2020
Eric Hundman and Sarah E Parkinson, “Rogues, Degenerates, and Heroes: Disobedience as Politics in Military Organizations,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 25, Issue 3 (2019): 645-671.
2019
Christopher Darnton, “Archives and Inference: Documentary Evidence in Case Study Research and the Debate over U.S. Entry into World War II,” International Security, Vol. 52, Issue 3, Winter 2017/2018, pp. 84-126.
2018
Brendan R. Green and Austin Long, “The MAD Who Wasn’t There: Soviet Reactions to the Late Cold War Nuclear Balance,” Security Studies, Vol. 26, Issue 4, July 2017, pp. 606-641.
2017
Lisa Blaydes and Christopher Paik, “The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development in Medieval Europe,” International Organization, Vol. 70 , Issue 3, Summer 2016, pp. 551-586.
2016
Winner: Andrew Phillips and Jason Sharman, “Explaining Durable Diversity in International Systems: State, Company, and Empire in the Indian Ocean,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 59, Issue 3, September 2015, pp. 436-448.
Honorable mention: Michael Beckley, “The Myth of Entangling Alliances: Reassessing the Security Risks of U.S. Defense Pacts,” International Security, Vol. 39, Issue 4, Spring 2015, pp. 7-48.
2015
Winner: Nicholas Miller, “The Secret Success of Nonproliferation Sanctions,” International Organization, Vol. 68, Issue 4, Fall 2014, pp. 913-944
Honorable mention: Timothy Crawford, “The Alliance Politics of Concerted Accommodation: Entente Bargaining and Italian and Ottoman Interventions in the First World War,” Security Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 1, February 2014, pp. 113-147.
2014
Keren Yarhi-Milo, “In the Eye of the Beholder: How Leaders and Intelligence Communities Assess the Intentions of Adversaries,” International Security, Vol. 38, Issue 1, Summer 2013, pp. 7-51.