International History and Politics Section Award Recipients
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Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award
Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics
Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award
The Robert L. Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award for the best book on International History and Politics. This award may be granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume. The award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented.
| 2025 | Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, University of California, Santa Barbara Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State.Stanford University Press, 2024. |
| 2025 | Honorable Mention Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson, London School of Economics and Political Science Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade. Harvard University Press, 2024. |
| 2024 | Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Oberlin College The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023. |
| 2023 | Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale University Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East. Columbia University Press, 2022. |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Ayşe Zarakol, University of Cambridge Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. Cambridge University Press, 2022. |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Jonathan Kirshner, Boston College An Unwritten Future: Realism, Uncertainty, and World Politics. Princeton University Press, 2022. |
| 2022 | Jeff D. Colgan, Brown University Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order, Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Sinja Graf, London School of Economics The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark, Georgia Tech University All Options on the Table: Leaders, Preventive War, and Nuclear Proliferation, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. |
| 2021 | Kyle Lascurettes, Lewis and Clark College Orders of Exclusion: Great Powers and the Strategic Sources of Foundational Rules in International Relations. Oxford University Press. |
| 2021 | Dov Levin, University of Hong Kong Meddling at the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions. Oxford University Press. |
| 2021 | Honorable Mention Lora Viola, Freie Universität Berlin The Closure of the International System. Cambridge University Press. |
| 2020 | Ahmet Kuru, San Diego State University Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison. Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| 2020 | Jelena Subotić, Georgia State University |
| 2019 | Arjun Chowdhury, University of British Columbia |
| 2018 | Catherine Lu, McGill University Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| 2017 | Rosella Capella Zielinski, Boston University How Nations Pay for War. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| 2017 | Honorable Mention Debra Thompson, Northwestern University The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census. Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| 2014 | Adria Lawrence, Yale University Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2013 |
| 2014 | Honorable Mention Jennifer Mitzen, Ohio State University Power in Concert: The Nineteenth Century Origins of Global Governance. University of Chicago Press, 2013 |
| 2013 | Ted Hopf, National University of Singapore Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 (Oxford University Press 2012) |
| 2013 | Honorable Mention Kristen Monroe, University of California, Irvine Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide: Identity and Moral Choice (Princeton University Press, 2012) |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Saunders, George Washington University Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions (Cornell University Press, 2011) |
| 2011 | James Mahoney, Northwestern University Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective |
| 2010 | Patrick McDonald, University of Texas, Austin The Invisible Hand of Peace: Capitalism, The War Machine, and International Relations Theory |
| 2009 | Richard Lebow, Dartmouth College A Cultural Theory of International Relations (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2009 | Honorable Mention George Gavrilis, University of Texas, Austin The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2008 | Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East (Princeton University Press 2007) |
| 2008 | Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village (Princeton University Press 2007) |
| 2007 | Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages |
| 2006 | Victoria Tin-bor Hui, University of Notre Dame War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2005) |
| 2006 | Honorable Mention Daryl Press, University of Pennsylvania Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Evaluate Military Threats (Cornell University Press, 2005) |
| 2005 | Jeffrey Taliaferro, Tufts University Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (Cornell University Press, 2004). |
| 2004 | Richard Samuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders & Their Legacies in Italy & Japan (Cornell University Press, 2003) |
| 2003 | Neta Crawford, Brown University Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge University Press, 2002) |
| 2003 | Dorothy Jones Toward a Just World: The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2002) |
| 2002 | G. Ikenberry, Georgetown University After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars |
| 2001 | Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University Unarmed Forces: The Transnatinal Movement to End the Cold War |
Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics
The Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics recognizes exceptional peer-reviewed journal articles representing the mission of the International History and Politics Section of the APSA, including innovative work that brings new light to events and processes in international politics, encourages interdisciplinary conversations between political scientists and historians, and advances historiographical methods.
| 2025 | Şener Aktürk, Koç University “Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe.” International Security 48(4): 87-136. 2024. |
| 2025 | Honorable Mention Onur Ulaş İnce, SOAS “From ‘Chinese Colonist’ to ‘Yellow Peril’: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire.” American Political Science Review 118(4): 1748–62. 2024. |
| 2024 | Naosuke Mukoyama, University of Tokyo “The Eastern cousins of European sovereign states?: The development of linear borders in early modern Japan.” European Journal of International Relations, 2023. |
| 2023 | Scott F. Abramson, University of Rochester “Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe.” American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2022), pp. 875-95. |
| 2023 | David B. Carter, Washington University in St. Louis “Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe.” American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2022), pp. 875-95. |
| 2023 | Luwei Ying, University of California, Los Angeles “Historical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe.” American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 3 (2022), pp. 875-95. |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Kerry Goettlich, University of Reading “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 | Michael Ben Josef Hirsch, Suffolk University “Conceptualizing and Assessing Norm Strength in International Relations,” European Journal of International Relations 27 (2) 2021: 521-547. |
| 2022 | Jennifer M. Dixon, Villanova University “Conceptualizing and Assessing Norm Strength in International Relations,” European Journal of International Relations 27 (2) 2021: 521-547. |
| 2021 | Yasuhiro Izumikawa, Chuo University “Network Connections and the Emergence of the Hub-and-Spokes Alliance System in East Asia.” International Security, 2020, 45(2), 7-50. |
| 2020 | Sarah Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University “Rogues, degenerates, and heroes: Disobedience as politics in military organizations.” European Journal of International Relations, February 2019. |
| 2020 | Eric Hundman, NYU Shanghai |
| 2019 | Christopher Darnton, Naval Postgraduate School “Archives and Inference: Documentary Evidence in Case Study Research and the Debate over U.S. Entry into World War II.” International Security 42(3): 84-126. |
| 2018 | Austin Long, RAND Corporation “The MAD Who Wasn’t There: Soviet Reactions to the Late Cold War Nuclear Balance.” Security Studies 26(4): 606–641. |
| 2018 | Brendan Green, University of Cincinnati “The MAD Who Wasn’t There: Soviet Reactions to the Late Cold War Nuclear Balance.” Security Studies 26(4): 606–641. |
| 2017 | Christopher Paik, New York University and Abu Dhabi “The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development on Medieval Europe.” International Organization 70 (3): 551–86. |
| 2017 | Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University “The Impact of Holy Land Crusades on State Formation: War Mobilization, Trade Integration, and Political Development on Medieval Europe.” International Organization 70 (3): 551–86. |