The ISSS Annual Best Book Award recognizes the book on any aspect of security studies that excels in originality, significance, and rigor, published during the 2012 calendar year. The award comes with a plaque presented at the ISA annual meeting, and a $500 award.

Award Details

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

Submission/Nomination

• To nominate a book, please have the publisher send a copy of the nominated book to each of the four committee members along with a short (less than 1 page) justification for the nomination.
• Nominations should be submitted by June 1st.

Award Committee

Richard Lacquement CHAIR | APR 2013 - MAR 2014 U.S. Army War College Colonel, U.S. Army Dean, School of Strategic Landpower 1101 Stratford Dr Carlisle PA 17013 richard.lacquement@us.army.mil	Stacie Goddard MEMBER | APR 2013 - MAR 2014 Wellesley College Department of Political science 233 Pendleton Hall East 106 Central Street Wellesley, MA 02481 sgoddard@wellesley.edu
Chris Demchak MEMBER | APR 2013 - MAR 2014 Strategic Res. Dept United States Naval War College Code 30 MLH 318 686 Cushing Rd Newport, RI, USA 02841 chris.demchak@usnwc.edu