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Foreign Policy (Section 31)

The Section on Foreign Policy is the organization for those interested in multilevel approaches to the study of international relations. The Section emphasizes individual, role, organizational, bureaucratic, societal, and/or state as well as situational and system level variables in foreign policy analyses. Members of the Section employ a wide range of approaches, including historical, normative, rational, behavioral, liberal, institutional, psychological, and constructivist. Section members emphasize comparative as well as American studies of foreign policy. And the Section recognizes the contributions of practitioners as well as academics in a broad range of professions and disciplines, e.g., communications, economics, diplomacy, government, history, political science, public opinion polling, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Founded: 1993
Yearly membership dues: $0 for students and $15 for all other members

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Section awards are presented during the APSA annual meeting awards ceremony. To learn more about any award listed, contact the award committee chair for the award.

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Foreign Policy Section Book Award Procedures

 

The Foreign Policy Section Graduate Student Travel Grant

This competitive grant is designed to support the travel costs of graduate students who currently studies in an academic institution to attend the APSA Annual Meeting in person. The recipients must be either a member of the APSA FP section at the time of the Annual Meeting or have a paper accepted for the Annual Meeting on a FP-sponsored panel (one of these two criteria is sufficient). The grant recipients will receive a $500 cash reimbursement for travel, accommodation, and/or fees directly accrued from their in-person attendance at the convention. The reimbursement will be paid directly to the awardee in person at the APSA Annual Meeting. The grant committee is comprised of members of the FP section board. The grant committee reserves the right not to award a grant if it is decided that no submitted applications are eligible for or deserving of the funds. Graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds who fit these criteria are strongly encouraged to apply. 
To apply, candidates must submit (1) motivation letter (max. 250 words), (2) abstract of the accepted paper, and either (3) evidence of annual convention acceptance (including panel sponsor information) (4) evidence of APSA FP section membership (if panel not a FP section sponsored panel). The motivation letter should discuss how attendance at APSA benefits the applicant’s research and career objectives. Examples include plans to network, attend other panels and events, receive feedback on own presentation, etc. Make sure to include your full name and APSA ID number.  Submissions with an explanation of more than 250 words or missing any of these documents will not be considered. All application materials should be sent via email to Foreign Policy section committee members Prof. Chad Nelson (Chad_Nelson@byu.edu) and Prof. Dov Levin (dovlvn@hku.hk). Deadline: May 15, 2024. The section will notify the recipients if they were awarded this grant by the end of July.  


Best Paper Award

This award recognizes the best paper presented on a panel organized by the Foreign Policy Section at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting. Deadline: November 15, 2023.

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email
Tom Dolan  University of Central Florida  thomas.dolan@ucf.edu
Jacqueline Hazelton Harvard University  jacqueline_hazelton@hks.harvard.edu
Emily Holland Naval War College  emily.holland@usnwc.edu

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

This award recognizes the best graduate student paper presented on a panel organized by the Foreign Policy Section at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting. Deadline: November, 15 2023.

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email
Chad Nelson (Chair) Brigham Young University  chad_nelson@byu.edu
Kelsey Larsen University of Central Florida  kelsey.larsen@ucf.edu
     
     

Best Book Award

 APSA’s Foreign Policy Section is holding its Best Book Award competition. The award recognizes outstanding scholarly monographs related to foreign policy – broadly understood – and the winner will receive a small cash prize.  Books using all methodologies and approaches to the subject are welcome.

To nominate a book, please send a hard-copy of the book to the members of the committee at the addresses listed below by March 1, 2024.

Hard copy submissions are strongly encouraged, but final PDF copies (not proofs) will be accepted.

In order to be eligible for the award,

The book must have been published in calendar years 2022 or 2023.

The book should be an original treatment of the topic, reporting new research, written collectively or by a single author.

The book should have been published by a scholarly publisher, such as a university press or an academically-oriented specialty press.

Please note that

Edited volumes, textbooks, translations, memoirs, think-tanks publications, policy briefs, and trade press books will not be considered.

We ask for self-nominations by authors (or publishers) only. Please do not send letters of nomination or recommendation from other scholars. If sent, they will not be considered.  

Book authors are not required to have been members of the section at the time of publication, but authors must be a section member in order to receive the award.

The winner will be announced at APSA’s 2024 Annual Meetings.

Award Committee

Name Affiliation Email Addresses
Anothy C. Lopez Washington State University  anthony.c.lopez@wsu.edu

 

Dov Levin  University of Hong Kong  dovlvn@hku.hk

 

Christine Sixta Rinehart University of South Carolina  sixta@mailbox.sc.edu

 

William Bendix Dakota State University  william.bendix@dsu.edi

 


Foreign Policy Section Best Annual Conference Discussant Award

This award recognizes an outstanding discussant who served at previous year's Annual Convention for providing high-quality feedback to papers presented on a panel sponsored by the APSA Foreign Policy section. The nominee must have provided feedback to at least two papers/paper presentations (in any APSA panel format). Discussants who served on panels co-sponsored with the Foreign Policy section and/or panel chairs who volunteered to also serve as discussants on two papers on their panels are also eligible. 

Nomination Instructions: Self-nominations are not allowed. Nominations can come from any participant who assumed a role on the panel (chair, presenter, non-presenting author etc.). To nominate a discussant, please send a brief nomination email (250-300 words) describing why you think the nominee deserves this award. Signatures of support from other panel participants (chair, presenter, non-presenting author etc.) are strongly encouraged but not required. The full name and APSA ID number of the nominee should be included in the letter.  Nominations should be sent to the award committee members. 

Award: The recipient of the best discussant award will receive a $200 award as well as a guaranteed paper presenter spot on a Foreign Policy-sponsored panel in the annual convention following the award ceremony (e.g. 2026 for a best discussant role in 2024) provided that the recipient submits a paper abstract that falls within the subject focus of the Foreign Policy section within the application deadline and lists Foreign Policy as their first section preference. 

Deadline: November 1, 2024. The section will notify the awardee by Spring 2025.

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