The International Studies Association is pleased to announce Summer Reading Mondays! Every Monday, we will be posting reading recommendations, featuring winners of our 2021-2022 ISA book awards. Visit our Award List for more information on our awards and the submission process. Below, please find the complete list of our winners.
On Gender:
Decolonization and Afro-Feminism
by Sylvia Tamale
- Winner of the FTGS Book Prize
Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy
by Ray Acheson
Male Survivors of War Time Sexual Violence
by Philipp Schulz
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Orgins of Modern Social Thought
by Durba Mitra
- FTGS Book Prize Honorable Mentions
Women’s International Thought: A New History
by Patricia Owens and Katharina Rietzler
- Winner of the Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Hist IR
Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process
by Marjaana Jauhola
- IPS Book Award Honorable Mention
On Sustainability and Medicine
Fueling Resistance: The Contentious Political Economy of Biofuels and Fracking
by Kate J. Neville
- Winner of the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award
Mercury Stories Understanding Sustainability through a Volatile Element
by Noelle Eckley Selin & Henrik Selin
- Harold & Margaret Sprout Award Honorable Mention
Pandemic Medicine: Why the Global Innovation System Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It
by Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens
- Winner of the Andrew Price-Smith Book Award
Private Governance and Public Authority: Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy
by Stefan Renckens
- IPE Best Book Award Honorable Mention
On Law and Crime
Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa
by Mohamed Sesay
- Winner of the Lee Ann Fujii Book Award
Criminalizing Atrocity – The Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes
by Mark Berlin
- Winner of the HR Best Book Award
Disrupting Africa: Technology, Law and Development
by Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
- Winner of the STAIR Book Award
The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought
by Sinja Graf
- Winner of the IETHICS Book Award
On History, Conflict, and Peace
The Wealth of Refugees: How Displaced People Can Build Economies
by Alexander Betts
The Path to Genocide in Rwanda: Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State
by Dr. Omar Shahabudin McDoom
- Winners of the ENMISA Distinguished Book Award
Statelessness: A Modern History
by Mira L. Siegelberg
- Winner of the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in HIST IR
How Insurgency Begins
by Janet I. Lewis
Diversity, Violence, and Recognition
by Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii
- Winner of the ISA Annual Best Book Award
Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law
by Gregory Shaffer
- Winner of the Chadwick Alger Prize
On Religion
Islamic Law and International Law
by Emilia Justyna Powell
- Winner of the ILAW Book Award
Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan
by Shenila Khoja-Moolji
- Lee Ann Fujii Book Award Honorable Mention
- Winner of the THEORY Best Book Award
Finding Faith in Foreign Policy: Religion and American Diplomacy in a Postsecular World
by Gregorio Bettiza
- REL Book Award Honorable Mention
Controlling Beliefs and Global Perceptions: Religion in Chinese Foreign Policy
by Emilia Justyna Powell
- Winner of the REL Book Award
On Inter- and Intra- National Relations
Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations
by William A. Callahan
- Winner of the IPS Book Award
Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation History Problems and Historical Opportunities
by Barry Buzan and Evelyn Goh
These Islands are Ours, The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia
by Alexander Bukh
- Winners of the AP Best Book
International Relations and the Problem of Time
by Andrew R. Hom
Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars
by Barbara Elias
- Winner of the ISSS Book Award
On China, Capitalism, and more!
How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
by Isabella M. Weber
- Winner of the Best Book in Interdisciplinary Studies
The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
by Hagar Kotef
- IPS Book Award Honorable Mention; Winner of the Yale H. Ferguson Award
Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia
by Albena Azmanova
- Winner of the IPE Best Book Award
Reputation for Resolve
by Danielle Lupton
- Winner of the J. David Singer Book Award