Section 48 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

The Best Article Award is given for the best article on international collaboration published in the previous year.

2025	Iasmin Goes, Colorado State University Terrence Chapman, University of Texas at Austin “Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?” International Studies Quarterly 68(2). 2024.
2025	Honorable Mention Luis L. Scheoni, University College London Gary Goertz, Independent Scholar Andrew P. Owsiak, University of Georgia Paul F. Diehl, Independent Scholar “The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas.” International Studies Quarterly 68(2). 2024.
2024	Averell Schmidt, Harvard University “Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation.” American Journal of Political Science, 2023.
2022	Sam S Rowan, Concordia University, Canada “Does Institutional Proliferation Undermine Cooperation? Theory and Evidence from Climate Change.” International Studies Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 2, (2021) 461–475.
2020	Inken Von Borzykowski, University College, London “Hello, goodbye: When do states withdraw from international organizations?” (2019) Review of International Organizations 14: 335-366.
2020	Felicity Vabulas, Pepperdine University “Hello, goodbye: When do states withdraw from international organizations?” (2019) Review of International Organizations 14: 335-366.

The Best Book Award is given for the best book on international collaboration published in the previous year.

2025	Clara Park, Duke University Making Financial Globalization. Oxford University Press, 2024.
2025	Honorable Mention Geoff Wallace, University of Washington International Law and the Public. Cornell University Press, 2024.
2024	Rochelle Terman, University of Chicago The Geopolitics of Shaming. Princeton University Press, 2023.
2022	Jeff Colgan, Brown Partial Hegemony. Oxford University Press (2021).
2022	Simone Dietrich, University of Geneva Switzerland States, Markets, and Foreign Aid, Cambridge University Press (2021).
2020	Marina E. Henke, Northwestern University Constructing Allied Cooperation: Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions. Cornell University Press, 2019.
2020	Honorable Mention Christina J. Schneider, University of California, San Diego The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on international collaboration for a Ph.D. awarded in the previous year.

2025	Averell Schmidt, Cornell University “Essays on the Politics of International Law.”
2025	Honorable Mention Kofi Gunu, Boston University “Resisting Assistance: How External Financiers Influence IMF Bailout Requests.”
2024	Harry Oppenheimer, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation “Essays on Digital Interdependence and Globalization.”
2022	Richard T. Clark, Columbia University “Better Together? How International Organizations Combat Complexity Through Cooperation.” (2021) Columbia University.
2022	Honorable Mention Alexandra Cecylia Chinchilla, University of Chicago “Advising War: Limited Intervention in Conflict.” University of Chicago, 2021
2020	Caroline Moehlicke, University of Texas, Austin Corporations and Global Regulation: Challenges and Opportunities for State Regulatory Powers

The Distinguished Mentor Award is given for excellence in mentoring graduate students and junior faculty in the study of international collaboration.

2025	Christina Schneider, University of California, San Diego
2024	James Raymond Vreeland, Princeton University
2022	Brett Ashley Leeds, Rice University
2020	Duncan Snidal, University of Oxford