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.
| 2025 | Hohyun Yoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Emotion and Coercive Credibility: The Strategic Role of Anger in International Crises.” |
| 2024 | Justin K. Haner, Northeastern University “Organizing Peace: An Algorithmic Analysis of Four Centuries of International Law and the Decline of War.” 2023. |
| 2023 | Don Casler, Columbia University |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention |
| 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, The 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.
| 2025 | Thomas G. Mahnken, Johns Hopkins University & Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments |
| 2023 | Dr. Victor Cha, Georgetown University |
| 2022 | Robert Jervis, Columbia University |
| 2021 | Susan Shirk, University of California, San Diego |
| 2018 | Bruce Jentlson, Duke University |
| 2014 | James “Jim” Steinberg, Johns Hopkins 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 |
Catherine McArdle Kelleher Best International Security Article
Catherine McArdle Kelleher Award for Best International Security Article
| 2025 | Cameron Mailhot, University of Arizona “How UN Peacekeeping Missions Enforce Peace Agreements.” American Journal of Political Science 69(2): 669-684. 2024. |
| 2024 | Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, European University Institute “Do Citizens’ Preferences Matter? Shaping Legislator Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023, Vol. 67(5). |
| 2024 | Aila M Matanock, University of California, Berkeley “Do Citizens’ Preferences Matter? Shaping Legislator Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023, Vol. 67(5). |
| 2024 | Miguel García-Sánchez, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia “Do Citizens’ Preferences Matter? Shaping Legislator Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023, Vol. 67(5). |
| 2023 | Dr. Eun A. Jo, Cornell University “Memory, Institutions, and the Domestic Politics of South Korean–Japanese Relations.” International Organization 76(4) (Fall 2022): pp. 767-98. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
Robert Jervis Best International Security Book Award
The Robert Jervis Best International Security Book by a Non-tenured Faculty Member
| 2025 | Tyler Jost, Brown University |
| 2025 | Honorable Mention Paul J. Angelo, National Defense University From Peril to Partnership: US Security Assistance and the Bid to Stabilize Colombia and Mexico. Oxford University Press, 2024. |
| 2025 | Honorable Mention Lennart Maschmeyer, Carleton University Subversion: From Covert Operations to Cyber Conflict. OXford University Press, 2024. |
| 2024 | Lisa Langdon Koch, Claremont McKenna College Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs. Oxford University Press, 2023. |
| 2024 | Sharan Grewal, College of William & Mary Soldiers of Democracy: Military Legacies and the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press, 2023. |
| 2023 | Dr. Chad E. Nelson, Brigham Young University Revolutionary Contagion and International Politics. Oxford University Press, 2022. |
| 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. |