ISSS Best Security Article Award

The purpose of the award is to recognize an article by an ISA member on any aspect of security studies that excels in originality, significance, and rigor, published in the prior calendar year.

Details

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Recipient Criteria

Any author or co-authors of a security studies article that appeared in print in 2020.
The author or co-authors of the article must be current members of ISA and the International Security Studies Section at the time the award is presented at the ISA Annual Meeting.
Papers must be nominated according to the application process described below.

Prize

The recipient of this award will receive a plaque and a $500 prize, which will be distributed at a reception of the ISA Annual Convention in Nashville 2022.

Selection Process

The selection will be made by the ISSS Best Article and Paper Award Committee.

Nomination/Application Instructions

Please send a full PDF copy of the nominated article, along with a short (1-page maximum) justification for the nomination, to the committee chair, Andrew Yeo.
Self-nominations are welcome.
The deadline for nominations is July 15, 2021.

Recipients

Congratulations to the 2021 recipients of the ISSS Best Security Article Award, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, for “Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion”! See the previous recipients below.

Past Recipients

Year	Recipient	Title
2021	Henry Farrell & Abraham Newman	Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion
2020	Lise Morjé Howard & Alexandra Stark	How Civil Wars End
2019	Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark	Nuclear Beliefs: A Leader-Focused Theory of Counter-Proliferation
2018	Austin Carson	Facing Off and Saving Face: Covert Intervention and Escalation Management in the Korean War
2017	Aisha Ahmad	The Security Bazaar: Business Interests and Islamist Power in Civil War Somalia

Committee Members

Andrew Yeo | Chair
The Catholic University of America

Bridget Coggins | Member
University of California, Santa Barbara

Lise Howard | Member
Georgetown University

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