The ISSS Annual Best Book Award recognizes a book 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

The book must have been published in 2021 on any aspect of security studies.
The author must be a member of ISA.
Books 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 Montréal 2023.

Selection Process

The selection will be made by the ISSS Best Book Award Committee.

Nomination/Application Instructions

To nominate a book, complete the online nomination form: https://forms.gle/y68XSupqzLJ3a8je8.
To be eligible for the award, the book must have the publication year 2021 on the copyright page.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the committee to mail copies of their books to each of the committee members.
Self-nominations are welcome.
The deadline for nominations is July 15, 2022.

Recipients

Congratulations to the 2022 recipient of the ISSS Book Award, Barbara Elias, for Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars! See the previous recipients below.

Past Recipients

Year	Recipient	Title
2021	Lise Morjé Howard	Power in Peacekeeping
2020	Lindsey O'Rourke	Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War
2019	Ahsan Butt	Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy against Separatists
2018	Dara Kay Cohen Philip Roessler	Rape During Civil War Ethnice Politics and State Power in Africa
2017	Stuart Kaufamn Caitlin Talmadge	nastionalist Passions The Dictator's Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes
2016	Vipin Narang	Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
2015	Jennifer Mitzen	Power in Concert: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Global Governance
2014	Ja Ian Chong	External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia and Thailand, 1893-1952
2013	Joshua Rovner	Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence
2012	Michael C. Horowitz	The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics
2011	Daniel H. Nexon	The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change
2010	C. William Waldorf	Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers
2009	David A. Welch	Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change
2008	Jonathan Kirshner	Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War
2007	David A. Welch	Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change

Committee Members

Dara Kay Cohen | Chair
Harvard Kennedy School

Bridget Coggins | Member
University of California, Santa Barbara

Rupal Mehta | Member
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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