The Distinguished Scholar Award is given for life achievement in International Security Studies. Typically, nominees will have made major contributions to scholarship in the field both via their own research and writing and their mentorship of others.

Award Details

For a listing of previous awardees, please see the Past Award Recipients page.

Submission/Nomination

• The nomination may come from any member of the International Security Studies Section.
• Nominations should be accompanied by a short letter of justification (not more than 1 page) and the nominee’s CV.
• The nomination should be sent to the chair of the committee.
• Candidates nominated in previous years are considered still to be in contention, and do not need to be re-nominated.
• Prior recipients include Robert Art, Richard Betts, Lawrence Freedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Jervis, John Mearsheimer, Richard Rosecrance, Thomas Schelling, Jack Snyder, and Kenneth Waltz.
• Nomination Deadline: April 22, 2013

Award Disbursement

• The award recipient will be honored at a special panel at the ISA Annual Convention in Toronto in March 2014
• The award includes a plaque and a $500 award which will be distributed at a reception following the panel.

Award Committee

Deborah Avant CO-CHAIR University of Denver Deborah.Avant@du.edu	Jack Snyder CO-CHAIR Columbia University jls6@columbia.edu
Fiona Adamson MEMBER SOAS, University of London fa33@soas.ac.uk	Ted Hopf MEMBER National University of Singapore polhtg@nus.edu.sg