The Carl Beck Award, established in 1980, is presented on an annual basis to a graduate student for his or her paper in the field of International Studies. Carl Beck was aware that the field of international relations faced difficult new challenges. To respond to those challenges it must be adaptive and innovative, open to new ideas, perspectives and approaches. The Committee therefore looks for original papers that deal with traditional concerns in new and interesting ways or with emergent international conditions and problems.
About the Award:
- A $500.00 (USD) prize is awarded from the ISA General Account
- The winner will also receive a plaque at the awards presentations at the annual ISA conference
- Graduate students are invited to submit their papers for the competition. Moreover, they need to include a letter of support for the nomination of the paper, written by department chairs, program directors, deans, chairs of sessions at ISA annual or regional meetings, or from chairs of sessions at other meetings of international studies associations. Such a letter has to explain why the paper has special merit and deserves consideration for the Carl Beck Award.
- In addition, department chairs, program directors, deans, chairs of sessions at ISA annual or regional meetings, or from chairs of sessions at other meetings of international studies associations are invited and encouraged to submit excellent student papers for the competition. In addition to the paper, they have to send a letter explaining why the paper has special merit and deserves consideration for the Carl Beck Award.
- The manuscript and letter should be sent to the Chair of the Carl Beck Award Committee. Submissions should arrive by October 20th of each year. Submissions should, if possible, be made electronically.
- Application Deadline: October 20th.
Eligibility:
To be eligible for the award, submitted papers must:
- be in English
- not exceed 10,000 words
- be delivered at the ISA conference in New Orleans (February 2010) or one of the other meetings affiliated with, organised or co-sponsored by the ISA (between October 20th 2009- October 20th 2010). See for all applicable meetings, http://www.isanet.org/conventions/
- not be considered for any other ISA award
- not be published as of the 20 October submission deadline
- be authored by graduate students who have not received their PhD as of the date of the paper presentation. To be eligible for consideration for the Carl Beck Award a paper must be the work of a full-time or part-time graduate student enrolled in a formal degree program at an established college or university. There is no restriction on the location of the institution. Jointly-authored papers are not eligible.
About the Committee:
- The three Member Committee is appointed by the ISA President with the concurrency of the Governing Council; Members serve two-year terms
- The Committee Chair is responsible for notifying the Recipient of the Award and encouraging the Recipient to attend the Annual Convention at which the Award is to be presented so as to receive the Award in person.
Committee:
Renske Doorenspleet
CHAIR, FEB 2009 - MAR 2011
Department of Politics and International Studies/ Centre for Studies in Democratization
University of Warwick
renske.doorenspleet@warwick.ac.uk
Scott Kastner
MEMBER, FEB 2010 - APR 2012
Department of Government and Politics
University of Maryland
skastner@gvpt.umd.edu
Duncan Snidal
MEMBER, FEB 2010 - APR 2012
Harris School and the Department of Political Science
University of Chicago
snidal@uchicago.edu
Award Recipients :
2010: Tina Freyburg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Vsevolod Gunitskiy, Columbia University (Honorable Mention)
2009: Michael Beckley, Columbia University, "Material Preponderance and Military Power"
2008: No award
2007: Shelley L. Hurt, The New School for Social Research, "Patent Law, Biodefense, and the National Security State, 1945-1972" (PDF).
2006: Idean Salehyan, University of California, San Diego, "Transnational Rebels: Neighboring States As Sanctuary for Rebel Groups" (PDF).
2005: Shuhei Kurizaki, UCLA, "Efficient Secrecy: Public Versus Private Threats in Crisis Diplomacy" (PDF)
2004: No award
2003: Kristopher W. Ramsay, University of Rochester, "Crisis Bargaining and Representative Democracy" (PDF)
2002: Carolyn Lloyd, University of Montreal, "Knowledge and the Emerging Global Small Arms Control Regime: Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish"
2001: No award
2000: Nita Rudra, University of Southern California.
1999: No award
1998: No award
1997: Renske Doorenspleet, University of Leiden, "Political Democracy: A Cross National Quantitative Analysis of Modernization and Dependency Theories"
1996: Bear Braumoeller, University of Michigan, "Deadly Doves? Liberalism, Nationalism, Domestic Structure, and the Democratic Peace in Soviet Successor States"
1995: Yukiko Koga, Syracuse University, "In Search of a People’s Space in IR/IPE Theory: Reintroducing Dialectic Ontology and Social Identity"
1994: Erik Gartzke, University of Iowa, "Congress and Back Seat Driving: Modeling the War Powers Resolution with an Information Theory of Delegation"
1993: Robert Latham, New School for Social Research, "Liberal Capitalism as an International System: Europe and the World"
1992: Lizbeth Barnard, Tufts University, "Beyond Mediation: Third Party Consultation in International Conflict Resolution"
1991: No award
1990: Patrick Regan, University of Michigan
1989: Jeffrey William Knopf, Stanford University, "Soviet Public Diplomacy and U.S. Policymaking on Arms Control: The Case of Gorbachev's Nuclear Testing Moratorium"
1988: No award
1987: Marie Henehen, Rutgers University, "A Quantitative Analysis of Disagreement on Foreign Policy in the U.S. Senate"
1986: Carolyn Rhodes-Jones, Utah State University, "Reciprocity and Cooperation in the GATT Regime"
1985: Lev Gonick, York University, "Constraints of the World Economy on National Political Development: 1948-1973"
1984: No award
1983: T. Clifton Morgan, University of Texas-Austin, "The Effects of War on the Economic Productivity of Nations in the Twentieth Century"
1982: Theodore Koontz, Princeton University, "A Public Policy Case for Permitting Selective Conscientious Objection"
